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[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\n\n\n

[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\n\n\n

[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

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His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

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His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

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His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tout cela devrait faire r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir les politiciens europ\u00e9ens : le scandale des pots-de-vin \u00e0 Bruxelles ne montre pas seulement la faiblesse du syst\u00e8me politique de l'Union, mais il met \u00e9galement en \u00e9vidence la mani\u00e8re tr\u00e8s dangereuse dont des pays \"dangereux\" comme les \u00c9mirats arabes unis et l'Arabie saoudite peuvent provoquer des actes de violence polici\u00e8re ou d'injustice criminelle dans certains \u00c9tats, \u00e0 commencer par l'Italie, la Su\u00e8de et l'Autriche - des nations dans lesquelles l'EFD et Vidino ont non seulement d'excellents contacts, mais occupent \u00e9galement des postes op\u00e9rationnels dans les ganglions les plus sensibles de l'administration publique. Personnellement, cela me conforte dans mon opinion : l'UE n'a pas d'alli\u00e9s - ni la Russie, ni la Chine, ni les pays arabes, ni m\u00eame (et presque personne ne le sait) les \u00c9tats-Unis d'Am\u00e9rique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Le probl\u00e8me est encore plus prononc\u00e9 en Autriche, o\u00f9 Vidino est membre du conseil consultatif de l'Observatoire de l'islam du gouvernement autrichien[51]<\/a>, au nom duquel il a r\u00e9dig\u00e9 un rapport visant \u00e0 obtenir l'ostracisme contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[52]<\/a>, et collabore activement avec les services secrets, pour lesquels il a aid\u00e9 \u00e0 produire une carte des associations et des lieux de culte musulmans dans le pays[53]<\/a>. Ses \u00e9crits contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont donn\u00e9 lieu \u00e0 une op\u00e9ration de police en novembre 2020, dont l'objectif \u00e9tait de d\u00e9sarmer ce que Vidino consid\u00e8re comme de dangereuses cellules terroristes[54]<\/a>, et qui n'a donn\u00e9 aucun r\u00e9sultat : malgr\u00e9 les efforts de centaines de policiers et la brutalit\u00e9 utilis\u00e9e, tous les accus\u00e9s se sont r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9s innocents[55]<\/a>. Un de ces cas typiques o\u00f9, comme le dit le dicton, la plume des \u00e9crivains tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e des soldats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tout cela devrait faire r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir les politiciens europ\u00e9ens : le scandale des pots-de-vin \u00e0 Bruxelles ne montre pas seulement la faiblesse du syst\u00e8me politique de l'Union, mais il met \u00e9galement en \u00e9vidence la mani\u00e8re tr\u00e8s dangereuse dont des pays \"dangereux\" comme les \u00c9mirats arabes unis et l'Arabie saoudite peuvent provoquer des actes de violence polici\u00e8re ou d'injustice criminelle dans certains \u00c9tats, \u00e0 commencer par l'Italie, la Su\u00e8de et l'Autriche - des nations dans lesquelles l'EFD et Vidino ont non seulement d'excellents contacts, mais occupent \u00e9galement des postes op\u00e9rationnels dans les ganglions les plus sensibles de l'administration publique. Personnellement, cela me conforte dans mon opinion : l'UE n'a pas d'alli\u00e9s - ni la Russie, ni la Chine, ni les pays arabes, ni m\u00eame (et presque personne ne le sait) les \u00c9tats-Unis d'Am\u00e9rique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

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His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bien s\u00fbr, Vidino n'est pas responsable du massacre perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 par un psychopathe. Mais cela devrait \u00e9galement inciter \u00e0 la prudence dans l'utilisation des conseils du lobbyiste milanais. Le contraire est vrai : en Italie, par exemple, les services secrets l'ont port\u00e9 au poste de coordinateur de la Commission d'\u00e9tude sur la radicalisation et l'extr\u00e9misme djihadiste[47]<\/a>, qui existait pendant les ann\u00e9es des gouvernements dirig\u00e9s par Matteo Renzi et Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, et l'ont confirm\u00e9 dans l'actuelle Commission de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[49]<\/a>. Un poste dans lequel M. Vidino est en mesure d'influencer les d\u00e9cisions politiques en mati\u00e8re diplomatique et militaire, mais aussi de contr\u00f4ler les r\u00e9sidents musulmans individuels en Italie. Un poste similaire lui a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 attribu\u00e9 au Royaume-Uni, mais il a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9voqu\u00e9 peu apr\u00e8s[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le probl\u00e8me est encore plus prononc\u00e9 en Autriche, o\u00f9 Vidino est membre du conseil consultatif de l'Observatoire de l'islam du gouvernement autrichien[51]<\/a>, au nom duquel il a r\u00e9dig\u00e9 un rapport visant \u00e0 obtenir l'ostracisme contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[52]<\/a>, et collabore activement avec les services secrets, pour lesquels il a aid\u00e9 \u00e0 produire une carte des associations et des lieux de culte musulmans dans le pays[53]<\/a>. Ses \u00e9crits contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont donn\u00e9 lieu \u00e0 une op\u00e9ration de police en novembre 2020, dont l'objectif \u00e9tait de d\u00e9sarmer ce que Vidino consid\u00e8re comme de dangereuses cellules terroristes[54]<\/a>, et qui n'a donn\u00e9 aucun r\u00e9sultat : malgr\u00e9 les efforts de centaines de policiers et la brutalit\u00e9 utilis\u00e9e, tous les accus\u00e9s se sont r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9s innocents[55]<\/a>. Un de ces cas typiques o\u00f9, comme le dit le dicton, la plume des \u00e9crivains tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e des soldats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tout cela devrait faire r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir les politiciens europ\u00e9ens : le scandale des pots-de-vin \u00e0 Bruxelles ne montre pas seulement la faiblesse du syst\u00e8me politique de l'Union, mais il met \u00e9galement en \u00e9vidence la mani\u00e8re tr\u00e8s dangereuse dont des pays \"dangereux\" comme les \u00c9mirats arabes unis et l'Arabie saoudite peuvent provoquer des actes de violence polici\u00e8re ou d'injustice criminelle dans certains \u00c9tats, \u00e0 commencer par l'Italie, la Su\u00e8de et l'Autriche - des nations dans lesquelles l'EFD et Vidino ont non seulement d'excellents contacts, mais occupent \u00e9galement des postes op\u00e9rationnels dans les ganglions les plus sensibles de l'administration publique. Personnellement, cela me conforte dans mon opinion : l'UE n'a pas d'alli\u00e9s - ni la Russie, ni la Chine, ni les pays arabes, ni m\u00eame (et presque personne ne le sait) les \u00c9tats-Unis d'Am\u00e9rique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

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His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La STR-12, l'une des armes les plus avanc\u00e9es sur le plan technologique, a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e en 2012 \u00e0 Abu Dhabi gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une collaboration entre TRENDS Research et Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bien s\u00fbr, Vidino n'est pas responsable du massacre perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 par un psychopathe. Mais cela devrait \u00e9galement inciter \u00e0 la prudence dans l'utilisation des conseils du lobbyiste milanais. Le contraire est vrai : en Italie, par exemple, les services secrets l'ont port\u00e9 au poste de coordinateur de la Commission d'\u00e9tude sur la radicalisation et l'extr\u00e9misme djihadiste[47]<\/a>, qui existait pendant les ann\u00e9es des gouvernements dirig\u00e9s par Matteo Renzi et Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, et l'ont confirm\u00e9 dans l'actuelle Commission de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[49]<\/a>. Un poste dans lequel M. Vidino est en mesure d'influencer les d\u00e9cisions politiques en mati\u00e8re diplomatique et militaire, mais aussi de contr\u00f4ler les r\u00e9sidents musulmans individuels en Italie. Un poste similaire lui a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 attribu\u00e9 au Royaume-Uni, mais il a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9voqu\u00e9 peu apr\u00e8s[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le probl\u00e8me est encore plus prononc\u00e9 en Autriche, o\u00f9 Vidino est membre du conseil consultatif de l'Observatoire de l'islam du gouvernement autrichien[51]<\/a>, au nom duquel il a r\u00e9dig\u00e9 un rapport visant \u00e0 obtenir l'ostracisme contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[52]<\/a>, et collabore activement avec les services secrets, pour lesquels il a aid\u00e9 \u00e0 produire une carte des associations et des lieux de culte musulmans dans le pays[53]<\/a>. Ses \u00e9crits contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont donn\u00e9 lieu \u00e0 une op\u00e9ration de police en novembre 2020, dont l'objectif \u00e9tait de d\u00e9sarmer ce que Vidino consid\u00e8re comme de dangereuses cellules terroristes[54]<\/a>, et qui n'a donn\u00e9 aucun r\u00e9sultat : malgr\u00e9 les efforts de centaines de policiers et la brutalit\u00e9 utilis\u00e9e, tous les accus\u00e9s se sont r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9s innocents[55]<\/a>. Un de ces cas typiques o\u00f9, comme le dit le dicton, la plume des \u00e9crivains tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e des soldats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tout cela devrait faire r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir les politiciens europ\u00e9ens : le scandale des pots-de-vin \u00e0 Bruxelles ne montre pas seulement la faiblesse du syst\u00e8me politique de l'Union, mais il met \u00e9galement en \u00e9vidence la mani\u00e8re tr\u00e8s dangereuse dont des pays \"dangereux\" comme les \u00c9mirats arabes unis et l'Arabie saoudite peuvent provoquer des actes de violence polici\u00e8re ou d'injustice criminelle dans certains \u00c9tats, \u00e0 commencer par l'Italie, la Su\u00e8de et l'Autriche - des nations dans lesquelles l'EFD et Vidino ont non seulement d'excellents contacts, mais occupent \u00e9galement des postes op\u00e9rationnels dans les ganglions les plus sensibles de l'administration publique. Personnellement, cela me conforte dans mon opinion : l'UE n'a pas d'alli\u00e9s - ni la Russie, ni la Chine, ni les pays arabes, ni m\u00eame (et presque personne ne le sait) les \u00c9tats-Unis d'Am\u00e9rique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

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His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La STR-12, l'une des armes les plus avanc\u00e9es sur le plan technologique, a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e en 2012 \u00e0 Abu Dhabi gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une collaboration entre TRENDS Research et Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bien s\u00fbr, Vidino n'est pas responsable du massacre perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 par un psychopathe. Mais cela devrait \u00e9galement inciter \u00e0 la prudence dans l'utilisation des conseils du lobbyiste milanais. Le contraire est vrai : en Italie, par exemple, les services secrets l'ont port\u00e9 au poste de coordinateur de la Commission d'\u00e9tude sur la radicalisation et l'extr\u00e9misme djihadiste[47]<\/a>, qui existait pendant les ann\u00e9es des gouvernements dirig\u00e9s par Matteo Renzi et Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, et l'ont confirm\u00e9 dans l'actuelle Commission de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[49]<\/a>. Un poste dans lequel M. Vidino est en mesure d'influencer les d\u00e9cisions politiques en mati\u00e8re diplomatique et militaire, mais aussi de contr\u00f4ler les r\u00e9sidents musulmans individuels en Italie. Un poste similaire lui a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 attribu\u00e9 au Royaume-Uni, mais il a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9voqu\u00e9 peu apr\u00e8s[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le probl\u00e8me est encore plus prononc\u00e9 en Autriche, o\u00f9 Vidino est membre du conseil consultatif de l'Observatoire de l'islam du gouvernement autrichien[51]<\/a>, au nom duquel il a r\u00e9dig\u00e9 un rapport visant \u00e0 obtenir l'ostracisme contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[52]<\/a>, et collabore activement avec les services secrets, pour lesquels il a aid\u00e9 \u00e0 produire une carte des associations et des lieux de culte musulmans dans le pays[53]<\/a>. Ses \u00e9crits contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont donn\u00e9 lieu \u00e0 une op\u00e9ration de police en novembre 2020, dont l'objectif \u00e9tait de d\u00e9sarmer ce que Vidino consid\u00e8re comme de dangereuses cellules terroristes[54]<\/a>, et qui n'a donn\u00e9 aucun r\u00e9sultat : malgr\u00e9 les efforts de centaines de policiers et la brutalit\u00e9 utilis\u00e9e, tous les accus\u00e9s se sont r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9s innocents[55]<\/a>. Un de ces cas typiques o\u00f9, comme le dit le dicton, la plume des \u00e9crivains tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e des soldats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tout cela devrait faire r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir les politiciens europ\u00e9ens : le scandale des pots-de-vin \u00e0 Bruxelles ne montre pas seulement la faiblesse du syst\u00e8me politique de l'Union, mais il met \u00e9galement en \u00e9vidence la mani\u00e8re tr\u00e8s dangereuse dont des pays \"dangereux\" comme les \u00c9mirats arabes unis et l'Arabie saoudite peuvent provoquer des actes de violence polici\u00e8re ou d'injustice criminelle dans certains \u00c9tats, \u00e0 commencer par l'Italie, la Su\u00e8de et l'Autriche - des nations dans lesquelles l'EFD et Vidino ont non seulement d'excellents contacts, mais occupent \u00e9galement des postes op\u00e9rationnels dans les ganglions les plus sensibles de l'administration publique. Personnellement, cela me conforte dans mon opinion : l'UE n'a pas d'alli\u00e9s - ni la Russie, ni la Chine, ni les pays arabes, ni m\u00eame (et presque personne ne le sait) les \u00c9tats-Unis d'Am\u00e9rique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

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His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire simple : TRENDS et ECSSR sont deux v\u00e9hicules utilis\u00e9s pour corrompre les politiciens et les militaires occidentaux, et Vidino s'emploie \u00e0 en sugg\u00e9rer de nouveaux[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, en tout cas, a \u00e9t\u00e9 impliqu\u00e9 dans plusieurs scandales de trafic d'armes[41]<\/a> et dans l'achat de logiciels espions particuli\u00e8rement pointus, de Pegasus \u00e0 DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. La diligence avec laquelle Vidino et ses coll\u00e8gues (issus d'associations li\u00e9es aux \u00c9mirats arabes unis) op\u00e8rent est telle que m\u00eame dans le golfe Persique, des voix se sont \u00e9lev\u00e9es pour demander la fin des mensonges, avant que ces th\u00e8ses, avanc\u00e9es par Vidino, ne deviennent l'arme d'un quelconque imprudent[43]<\/a>. Trop tard : les th\u00e8ses du lobbyiste milanais ont \u00e9t\u00e9 reprises par Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, le fou qui, en 2012, a tu\u00e9 77 personnes, dont 69 participants \u00e0 un camp d'\u00e9t\u00e9 de la Ligue de la jeunesse ouvri\u00e8re[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La STR-12, l'une des armes les plus avanc\u00e9es sur le plan technologique, a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e en 2012 \u00e0 Abu Dhabi gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une collaboration entre TRENDS Research et Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bien s\u00fbr, Vidino n'est pas responsable du massacre perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 par un psychopathe. Mais cela devrait \u00e9galement inciter \u00e0 la prudence dans l'utilisation des conseils du lobbyiste milanais. Le contraire est vrai : en Italie, par exemple, les services secrets l'ont port\u00e9 au poste de coordinateur de la Commission d'\u00e9tude sur la radicalisation et l'extr\u00e9misme djihadiste[47]<\/a>, qui existait pendant les ann\u00e9es des gouvernements dirig\u00e9s par Matteo Renzi et Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, et l'ont confirm\u00e9 dans l'actuelle Commission de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[49]<\/a>. Un poste dans lequel M. Vidino est en mesure d'influencer les d\u00e9cisions politiques en mati\u00e8re diplomatique et militaire, mais aussi de contr\u00f4ler les r\u00e9sidents musulmans individuels en Italie. Un poste similaire lui a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 attribu\u00e9 au Royaume-Uni, mais il a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9voqu\u00e9 peu apr\u00e8s[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le probl\u00e8me est encore plus prononc\u00e9 en Autriche, o\u00f9 Vidino est membre du conseil consultatif de l'Observatoire de l'islam du gouvernement autrichien[51]<\/a>, au nom duquel il a r\u00e9dig\u00e9 un rapport visant \u00e0 obtenir l'ostracisme contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[52]<\/a>, et collabore activement avec les services secrets, pour lesquels il a aid\u00e9 \u00e0 produire une carte des associations et des lieux de culte musulmans dans le pays[53]<\/a>. Ses \u00e9crits contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont donn\u00e9 lieu \u00e0 une op\u00e9ration de police en novembre 2020, dont l'objectif \u00e9tait de d\u00e9sarmer ce que Vidino consid\u00e8re comme de dangereuses cellules terroristes[54]<\/a>, et qui n'a donn\u00e9 aucun r\u00e9sultat : malgr\u00e9 les efforts de centaines de policiers et la brutalit\u00e9 utilis\u00e9e, tous les accus\u00e9s se sont r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9s innocents[55]<\/a>. Un de ces cas typiques o\u00f9, comme le dit le dicton, la plume des \u00e9crivains tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e des soldats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tout cela devrait faire r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir les politiciens europ\u00e9ens : le scandale des pots-de-vin \u00e0 Bruxelles ne montre pas seulement la faiblesse du syst\u00e8me politique de l'Union, mais il met \u00e9galement en \u00e9vidence la mani\u00e8re tr\u00e8s dangereuse dont des pays \"dangereux\" comme les \u00c9mirats arabes unis et l'Arabie saoudite peuvent provoquer des actes de violence polici\u00e8re ou d'injustice criminelle dans certains \u00c9tats, \u00e0 commencer par l'Italie, la Su\u00e8de et l'Autriche - des nations dans lesquelles l'EFD et Vidino ont non seulement d'excellents contacts, mais occupent \u00e9galement des postes op\u00e9rationnels dans les ganglions les plus sensibles de l'administration publique. Personnellement, cela me conforte dans mon opinion : l'UE n'a pas d'alli\u00e9s - ni la Russie, ni la Chine, ni les pays arabes, ni m\u00eame (et presque personne ne le sait) les \u00c9tats-Unis d'Am\u00e9rique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

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His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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TRENDS Research, financ\u00e9 par le gotha militaire et p\u00e9trolier du Golfe Persique[37]<\/a>, est dirig\u00e9 par Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, qui a travaill\u00e9 pendant des ann\u00e9es comme conseiller acad\u00e9mique pour l'ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, fond\u00e9 en 1994 par Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan dans le but de justifier le r\u00e9armement massif des \u00c9mirats et aujourd'hui dirig\u00e9 par le chef des lobbyistes \u00e9miratis en Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi) [38]<\/a>. L'ECSSR travaille pour la Tawazun Holding de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. En ao\u00fbt 2017, Tawazun avait vers\u00e9 20 millions de dollars \u00e0 l'ECSSR, et l'ECSSR les a vers\u00e9s \u00e0 l'Institut du Moyen-Orient \u00e0 Washington : une association d'anciens militaires am\u00e9ricains, qui a \u00e0 son tour vers\u00e9 cette somme \u00e0 divers g\u00e9n\u00e9raux et politiciens pour donner un coup de fouet aux contrats militaires entre les \u00c9tats-Unis et les EAU[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire simple : TRENDS et ECSSR sont deux v\u00e9hicules utilis\u00e9s pour corrompre les politiciens et les militaires occidentaux, et Vidino s'emploie \u00e0 en sugg\u00e9rer de nouveaux[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, en tout cas, a \u00e9t\u00e9 impliqu\u00e9 dans plusieurs scandales de trafic d'armes[41]<\/a> et dans l'achat de logiciels espions particuli\u00e8rement pointus, de Pegasus \u00e0 DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. La diligence avec laquelle Vidino et ses coll\u00e8gues (issus d'associations li\u00e9es aux \u00c9mirats arabes unis) op\u00e8rent est telle que m\u00eame dans le golfe Persique, des voix se sont \u00e9lev\u00e9es pour demander la fin des mensonges, avant que ces th\u00e8ses, avanc\u00e9es par Vidino, ne deviennent l'arme d'un quelconque imprudent[43]<\/a>. Trop tard : les th\u00e8ses du lobbyiste milanais ont \u00e9t\u00e9 reprises par Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, le fou qui, en 2012, a tu\u00e9 77 personnes, dont 69 participants \u00e0 un camp d'\u00e9t\u00e9 de la Ligue de la jeunesse ouvri\u00e8re[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La STR-12, l'une des armes les plus avanc\u00e9es sur le plan technologique, a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e en 2012 \u00e0 Abu Dhabi gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une collaboration entre TRENDS Research et Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bien s\u00fbr, Vidino n'est pas responsable du massacre perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 par un psychopathe. Mais cela devrait \u00e9galement inciter \u00e0 la prudence dans l'utilisation des conseils du lobbyiste milanais. Le contraire est vrai : en Italie, par exemple, les services secrets l'ont port\u00e9 au poste de coordinateur de la Commission d'\u00e9tude sur la radicalisation et l'extr\u00e9misme djihadiste[47]<\/a>, qui existait pendant les ann\u00e9es des gouvernements dirig\u00e9s par Matteo Renzi et Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, et l'ont confirm\u00e9 dans l'actuelle Commission de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[49]<\/a>. Un poste dans lequel M. Vidino est en mesure d'influencer les d\u00e9cisions politiques en mati\u00e8re diplomatique et militaire, mais aussi de contr\u00f4ler les r\u00e9sidents musulmans individuels en Italie. Un poste similaire lui a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 attribu\u00e9 au Royaume-Uni, mais il a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9voqu\u00e9 peu apr\u00e8s[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le probl\u00e8me est encore plus prononc\u00e9 en Autriche, o\u00f9 Vidino est membre du conseil consultatif de l'Observatoire de l'islam du gouvernement autrichien[51]<\/a>, au nom duquel il a r\u00e9dig\u00e9 un rapport visant \u00e0 obtenir l'ostracisme contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[52]<\/a>, et collabore activement avec les services secrets, pour lesquels il a aid\u00e9 \u00e0 produire une carte des associations et des lieux de culte musulmans dans le pays[53]<\/a>. Ses \u00e9crits contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont donn\u00e9 lieu \u00e0 une op\u00e9ration de police en novembre 2020, dont l'objectif \u00e9tait de d\u00e9sarmer ce que Vidino consid\u00e8re comme de dangereuses cellules terroristes[54]<\/a>, et qui n'a donn\u00e9 aucun r\u00e9sultat : malgr\u00e9 les efforts de centaines de policiers et la brutalit\u00e9 utilis\u00e9e, tous les accus\u00e9s se sont r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9s innocents[55]<\/a>. Un de ces cas typiques o\u00f9, comme le dit le dicton, la plume des \u00e9crivains tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e des soldats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tout cela devrait faire r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir les politiciens europ\u00e9ens : le scandale des pots-de-vin \u00e0 Bruxelles ne montre pas seulement la faiblesse du syst\u00e8me politique de l'Union, mais il met \u00e9galement en \u00e9vidence la mani\u00e8re tr\u00e8s dangereuse dont des pays \"dangereux\" comme les \u00c9mirats arabes unis et l'Arabie saoudite peuvent provoquer des actes de violence polici\u00e8re ou d'injustice criminelle dans certains \u00c9tats, \u00e0 commencer par l'Italie, la Su\u00e8de et l'Autriche - des nations dans lesquelles l'EFD et Vidino ont non seulement d'excellents contacts, mais occupent \u00e9galement des postes op\u00e9rationnels dans les ganglions les plus sensibles de l'administration publique. Personnellement, cela me conforte dans mon opinion : l'UE n'a pas d'alli\u00e9s - ni la Russie, ni la Chine, ni les pays arabes, ni m\u00eame (et presque personne ne le sait) les \u00c9tats-Unis d'Am\u00e9rique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

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His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ces th\u00e8ses ne sont pas surprenantes. Son travail de lobbyiste \u00e0 l'EFD a conduit Vidino \u00e0 la prochaine \u00e9tape de sa carri\u00e8re : celle d'associ\u00e9 de TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, une agence d'\u00c9tat \u00e9miratie aux objectifs ambitieux : (a) analyser les menaces militaires, m\u00e9diatiques et cybern\u00e9tiques que repr\u00e9sentent les ennemis des monarchies du golfe Persique et impliquer les \u00c9tats-Unis dans les mesures visant \u00e0 r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 ces menaces ; b) d\u00e9signer et r\u00e9pertorier les adversaires des monarchies du golfe (d\u00e9finis tout court comme des \"terroristes\"), exercer des pressions diplomatiques pour qu'ils soient poursuivis, publier ce qu'il est possible de publier pour les discr\u00e9diter ; c) identifier, dans chaque pays, des alli\u00e9s possibles et les contacter ; d) identifier les personnes qui ont des int\u00e9r\u00eats dans les monarchies du golfe Persique et les contacter. d) pr\u00e9parer les \u00c9mirats \u00e0 un conflit militaire, en analysant ses co\u00fbts et ses avantages, et \u00e9valuer les \u00e9tapes n\u00e9cessaires pour s'assurer une place \u00e0 la table o\u00f9 sont distribu\u00e9s les lucratifs contrats de reconstruction ; e) financer des projets d'intelligence artificielle et de cybern\u00e9tique ayant des applications militaires utiles ; f) an\u00e9antir les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ; g) identifier des projets d'investissement \u00e9conomique et infrastructurel dans des pays pr\u00eats \u00e0 recevoir le message de l'islam tel qu'il est pratiqu\u00e9 dans le golfe Persique[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financ\u00e9 par le gotha militaire et p\u00e9trolier du Golfe Persique[37]<\/a>, est dirig\u00e9 par Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, qui a travaill\u00e9 pendant des ann\u00e9es comme conseiller acad\u00e9mique pour l'ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, fond\u00e9 en 1994 par Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan dans le but de justifier le r\u00e9armement massif des \u00c9mirats et aujourd'hui dirig\u00e9 par le chef des lobbyistes \u00e9miratis en Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi) [38]<\/a>. L'ECSSR travaille pour la Tawazun Holding de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. En ao\u00fbt 2017, Tawazun avait vers\u00e9 20 millions de dollars \u00e0 l'ECSSR, et l'ECSSR les a vers\u00e9s \u00e0 l'Institut du Moyen-Orient \u00e0 Washington : une association d'anciens militaires am\u00e9ricains, qui a \u00e0 son tour vers\u00e9 cette somme \u00e0 divers g\u00e9n\u00e9raux et politiciens pour donner un coup de fouet aux contrats militaires entre les \u00c9tats-Unis et les EAU[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire simple : TRENDS et ECSSR sont deux v\u00e9hicules utilis\u00e9s pour corrompre les politiciens et les militaires occidentaux, et Vidino s'emploie \u00e0 en sugg\u00e9rer de nouveaux[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, en tout cas, a \u00e9t\u00e9 impliqu\u00e9 dans plusieurs scandales de trafic d'armes[41]<\/a> et dans l'achat de logiciels espions particuli\u00e8rement pointus, de Pegasus \u00e0 DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. La diligence avec laquelle Vidino et ses coll\u00e8gues (issus d'associations li\u00e9es aux \u00c9mirats arabes unis) op\u00e8rent est telle que m\u00eame dans le golfe Persique, des voix se sont \u00e9lev\u00e9es pour demander la fin des mensonges, avant que ces th\u00e8ses, avanc\u00e9es par Vidino, ne deviennent l'arme d'un quelconque imprudent[43]<\/a>. Trop tard : les th\u00e8ses du lobbyiste milanais ont \u00e9t\u00e9 reprises par Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, le fou qui, en 2012, a tu\u00e9 77 personnes, dont 69 participants \u00e0 un camp d'\u00e9t\u00e9 de la Ligue de la jeunesse ouvri\u00e8re[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La STR-12, l'une des armes les plus avanc\u00e9es sur le plan technologique, a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e en 2012 \u00e0 Abu Dhabi gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une collaboration entre TRENDS Research et Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bien s\u00fbr, Vidino n'est pas responsable du massacre perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 par un psychopathe. Mais cela devrait \u00e9galement inciter \u00e0 la prudence dans l'utilisation des conseils du lobbyiste milanais. Le contraire est vrai : en Italie, par exemple, les services secrets l'ont port\u00e9 au poste de coordinateur de la Commission d'\u00e9tude sur la radicalisation et l'extr\u00e9misme djihadiste[47]<\/a>, qui existait pendant les ann\u00e9es des gouvernements dirig\u00e9s par Matteo Renzi et Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, et l'ont confirm\u00e9 dans l'actuelle Commission de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[49]<\/a>. Un poste dans lequel M. Vidino est en mesure d'influencer les d\u00e9cisions politiques en mati\u00e8re diplomatique et militaire, mais aussi de contr\u00f4ler les r\u00e9sidents musulmans individuels en Italie. Un poste similaire lui a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 attribu\u00e9 au Royaume-Uni, mais il a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9voqu\u00e9 peu apr\u00e8s[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le probl\u00e8me est encore plus prononc\u00e9 en Autriche, o\u00f9 Vidino est membre du conseil consultatif de l'Observatoire de l'islam du gouvernement autrichien[51]<\/a>, au nom duquel il a r\u00e9dig\u00e9 un rapport visant \u00e0 obtenir l'ostracisme contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[52]<\/a>, et collabore activement avec les services secrets, pour lesquels il a aid\u00e9 \u00e0 produire une carte des associations et des lieux de culte musulmans dans le pays[53]<\/a>. Ses \u00e9crits contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont donn\u00e9 lieu \u00e0 une op\u00e9ration de police en novembre 2020, dont l'objectif \u00e9tait de d\u00e9sarmer ce que Vidino consid\u00e8re comme de dangereuses cellules terroristes[54]<\/a>, et qui n'a donn\u00e9 aucun r\u00e9sultat : malgr\u00e9 les efforts de centaines de policiers et la brutalit\u00e9 utilis\u00e9e, tous les accus\u00e9s se sont r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9s innocents[55]<\/a>. Un de ces cas typiques o\u00f9, comme le dit le dicton, la plume des \u00e9crivains tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e des soldats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tout cela devrait faire r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir les politiciens europ\u00e9ens : le scandale des pots-de-vin \u00e0 Bruxelles ne montre pas seulement la faiblesse du syst\u00e8me politique de l'Union, mais il met \u00e9galement en \u00e9vidence la mani\u00e8re tr\u00e8s dangereuse dont des pays \"dangereux\" comme les \u00c9mirats arabes unis et l'Arabie saoudite peuvent provoquer des actes de violence polici\u00e8re ou d'injustice criminelle dans certains \u00c9tats, \u00e0 commencer par l'Italie, la Su\u00e8de et l'Autriche - des nations dans lesquelles l'EFD et Vidino ont non seulement d'excellents contacts, mais occupent \u00e9galement des postes op\u00e9rationnels dans les ganglions les plus sensibles de l'administration publique. Personnellement, cela me conforte dans mon opinion : l'UE n'a pas d'alli\u00e9s - ni la Russie, ni la Chine, ni les pays arabes, ni m\u00eame (et presque personne ne le sait) les \u00c9tats-Unis d'Am\u00e9rique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

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His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Entre-temps, Vidino est devenu un orateur politique populaire. Son ami Al Otaiba l'a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 au ministre des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res des EAU Abdullah Bin Zayed en 2017, apr\u00e8s que Vidino ait beaucoup travaill\u00e9 avec Quiller Consultants, le cabinet de lobbying bas\u00e9 \u00e0 Londres qui place des articles pro-Abu Dhabi dans la presse britannique[33]<\/a>. Dans le magazine trimestriel Middle East Quarterly, Vidino a affirm\u00e9 que \"l'Europe est devenue un incubateur de la pens\u00e9e et du d\u00e9veloppement politique islamistes\" : selon lui, les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont construit un \"vaste r\u00e9seau bien organis\u00e9 de mosqu\u00e9es, d'organisations caritatives et d'organisations islamiques\", dont le but serait d'\u00e9tendre le radicalisme islamique \u00e0 l'ensemble de l'Occident[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ces th\u00e8ses ne sont pas surprenantes. Son travail de lobbyiste \u00e0 l'EFD a conduit Vidino \u00e0 la prochaine \u00e9tape de sa carri\u00e8re : celle d'associ\u00e9 de TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, une agence d'\u00c9tat \u00e9miratie aux objectifs ambitieux : (a) analyser les menaces militaires, m\u00e9diatiques et cybern\u00e9tiques que repr\u00e9sentent les ennemis des monarchies du golfe Persique et impliquer les \u00c9tats-Unis dans les mesures visant \u00e0 r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 ces menaces ; b) d\u00e9signer et r\u00e9pertorier les adversaires des monarchies du golfe (d\u00e9finis tout court comme des \"terroristes\"), exercer des pressions diplomatiques pour qu'ils soient poursuivis, publier ce qu'il est possible de publier pour les discr\u00e9diter ; c) identifier, dans chaque pays, des alli\u00e9s possibles et les contacter ; d) identifier les personnes qui ont des int\u00e9r\u00eats dans les monarchies du golfe Persique et les contacter. d) pr\u00e9parer les \u00c9mirats \u00e0 un conflit militaire, en analysant ses co\u00fbts et ses avantages, et \u00e9valuer les \u00e9tapes n\u00e9cessaires pour s'assurer une place \u00e0 la table o\u00f9 sont distribu\u00e9s les lucratifs contrats de reconstruction ; e) financer des projets d'intelligence artificielle et de cybern\u00e9tique ayant des applications militaires utiles ; f) an\u00e9antir les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ; g) identifier des projets d'investissement \u00e9conomique et infrastructurel dans des pays pr\u00eats \u00e0 recevoir le message de l'islam tel qu'il est pratiqu\u00e9 dans le golfe Persique[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financ\u00e9 par le gotha militaire et p\u00e9trolier du Golfe Persique[37]<\/a>, est dirig\u00e9 par Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, qui a travaill\u00e9 pendant des ann\u00e9es comme conseiller acad\u00e9mique pour l'ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, fond\u00e9 en 1994 par Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan dans le but de justifier le r\u00e9armement massif des \u00c9mirats et aujourd'hui dirig\u00e9 par le chef des lobbyistes \u00e9miratis en Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi) [38]<\/a>. L'ECSSR travaille pour la Tawazun Holding de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. En ao\u00fbt 2017, Tawazun avait vers\u00e9 20 millions de dollars \u00e0 l'ECSSR, et l'ECSSR les a vers\u00e9s \u00e0 l'Institut du Moyen-Orient \u00e0 Washington : une association d'anciens militaires am\u00e9ricains, qui a \u00e0 son tour vers\u00e9 cette somme \u00e0 divers g\u00e9n\u00e9raux et politiciens pour donner un coup de fouet aux contrats militaires entre les \u00c9tats-Unis et les EAU[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire simple : TRENDS et ECSSR sont deux v\u00e9hicules utilis\u00e9s pour corrompre les politiciens et les militaires occidentaux, et Vidino s'emploie \u00e0 en sugg\u00e9rer de nouveaux[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, en tout cas, a \u00e9t\u00e9 impliqu\u00e9 dans plusieurs scandales de trafic d'armes[41]<\/a> et dans l'achat de logiciels espions particuli\u00e8rement pointus, de Pegasus \u00e0 DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. La diligence avec laquelle Vidino et ses coll\u00e8gues (issus d'associations li\u00e9es aux \u00c9mirats arabes unis) op\u00e8rent est telle que m\u00eame dans le golfe Persique, des voix se sont \u00e9lev\u00e9es pour demander la fin des mensonges, avant que ces th\u00e8ses, avanc\u00e9es par Vidino, ne deviennent l'arme d'un quelconque imprudent[43]<\/a>. Trop tard : les th\u00e8ses du lobbyiste milanais ont \u00e9t\u00e9 reprises par Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, le fou qui, en 2012, a tu\u00e9 77 personnes, dont 69 participants \u00e0 un camp d'\u00e9t\u00e9 de la Ligue de la jeunesse ouvri\u00e8re[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La STR-12, l'une des armes les plus avanc\u00e9es sur le plan technologique, a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e en 2012 \u00e0 Abu Dhabi gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une collaboration entre TRENDS Research et Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bien s\u00fbr, Vidino n'est pas responsable du massacre perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 par un psychopathe. Mais cela devrait \u00e9galement inciter \u00e0 la prudence dans l'utilisation des conseils du lobbyiste milanais. Le contraire est vrai : en Italie, par exemple, les services secrets l'ont port\u00e9 au poste de coordinateur de la Commission d'\u00e9tude sur la radicalisation et l'extr\u00e9misme djihadiste[47]<\/a>, qui existait pendant les ann\u00e9es des gouvernements dirig\u00e9s par Matteo Renzi et Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, et l'ont confirm\u00e9 dans l'actuelle Commission de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[49]<\/a>. Un poste dans lequel M. Vidino est en mesure d'influencer les d\u00e9cisions politiques en mati\u00e8re diplomatique et militaire, mais aussi de contr\u00f4ler les r\u00e9sidents musulmans individuels en Italie. Un poste similaire lui a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 attribu\u00e9 au Royaume-Uni, mais il a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9voqu\u00e9 peu apr\u00e8s[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le probl\u00e8me est encore plus prononc\u00e9 en Autriche, o\u00f9 Vidino est membre du conseil consultatif de l'Observatoire de l'islam du gouvernement autrichien[51]<\/a>, au nom duquel il a r\u00e9dig\u00e9 un rapport visant \u00e0 obtenir l'ostracisme contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[52]<\/a>, et collabore activement avec les services secrets, pour lesquels il a aid\u00e9 \u00e0 produire une carte des associations et des lieux de culte musulmans dans le pays[53]<\/a>. Ses \u00e9crits contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont donn\u00e9 lieu \u00e0 une op\u00e9ration de police en novembre 2020, dont l'objectif \u00e9tait de d\u00e9sarmer ce que Vidino consid\u00e8re comme de dangereuses cellules terroristes[54]<\/a>, et qui n'a donn\u00e9 aucun r\u00e9sultat : malgr\u00e9 les efforts de centaines de policiers et la brutalit\u00e9 utilis\u00e9e, tous les accus\u00e9s se sont r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9s innocents[55]<\/a>. Un de ces cas typiques o\u00f9, comme le dit le dicton, la plume des \u00e9crivains tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e des soldats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tout cela devrait faire r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir les politiciens europ\u00e9ens : le scandale des pots-de-vin \u00e0 Bruxelles ne montre pas seulement la faiblesse du syst\u00e8me politique de l'Union, mais il met \u00e9galement en \u00e9vidence la mani\u00e8re tr\u00e8s dangereuse dont des pays \"dangereux\" comme les \u00c9mirats arabes unis et l'Arabie saoudite peuvent provoquer des actes de violence polici\u00e8re ou d'injustice criminelle dans certains \u00c9tats, \u00e0 commencer par l'Italie, la Su\u00e8de et l'Autriche - des nations dans lesquelles l'EFD et Vidino ont non seulement d'excellents contacts, mais occupent \u00e9galement des postes op\u00e9rationnels dans les ganglions les plus sensibles de l'administration publique. Personnellement, cela me conforte dans mon opinion : l'UE n'a pas d'alli\u00e9s - ni la Russie, ni la Chine, ni les pays arabes, ni m\u00eame (et presque personne ne le sait) les \u00c9tats-Unis d'Am\u00e9rique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

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His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Le maniaque norv\u00e9gien Anders Behring Breivik se r\u00e9f\u00e8re \u00e0 Hitler pour expliquer le massacre qu'il a perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 en 2012, mais cite aussi les textes de Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entre-temps, Vidino est devenu un orateur politique populaire. Son ami Al Otaiba l'a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 au ministre des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res des EAU Abdullah Bin Zayed en 2017, apr\u00e8s que Vidino ait beaucoup travaill\u00e9 avec Quiller Consultants, le cabinet de lobbying bas\u00e9 \u00e0 Londres qui place des articles pro-Abu Dhabi dans la presse britannique[33]<\/a>. Dans le magazine trimestriel Middle East Quarterly, Vidino a affirm\u00e9 que \"l'Europe est devenue un incubateur de la pens\u00e9e et du d\u00e9veloppement politique islamistes\" : selon lui, les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont construit un \"vaste r\u00e9seau bien organis\u00e9 de mosqu\u00e9es, d'organisations caritatives et d'organisations islamiques\", dont le but serait d'\u00e9tendre le radicalisme islamique \u00e0 l'ensemble de l'Occident[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ces th\u00e8ses ne sont pas surprenantes. Son travail de lobbyiste \u00e0 l'EFD a conduit Vidino \u00e0 la prochaine \u00e9tape de sa carri\u00e8re : celle d'associ\u00e9 de TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, une agence d'\u00c9tat \u00e9miratie aux objectifs ambitieux : (a) analyser les menaces militaires, m\u00e9diatiques et cybern\u00e9tiques que repr\u00e9sentent les ennemis des monarchies du golfe Persique et impliquer les \u00c9tats-Unis dans les mesures visant \u00e0 r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 ces menaces ; b) d\u00e9signer et r\u00e9pertorier les adversaires des monarchies du golfe (d\u00e9finis tout court comme des \"terroristes\"), exercer des pressions diplomatiques pour qu'ils soient poursuivis, publier ce qu'il est possible de publier pour les discr\u00e9diter ; c) identifier, dans chaque pays, des alli\u00e9s possibles et les contacter ; d) identifier les personnes qui ont des int\u00e9r\u00eats dans les monarchies du golfe Persique et les contacter. d) pr\u00e9parer les \u00c9mirats \u00e0 un conflit militaire, en analysant ses co\u00fbts et ses avantages, et \u00e9valuer les \u00e9tapes n\u00e9cessaires pour s'assurer une place \u00e0 la table o\u00f9 sont distribu\u00e9s les lucratifs contrats de reconstruction ; e) financer des projets d'intelligence artificielle et de cybern\u00e9tique ayant des applications militaires utiles ; f) an\u00e9antir les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ; g) identifier des projets d'investissement \u00e9conomique et infrastructurel dans des pays pr\u00eats \u00e0 recevoir le message de l'islam tel qu'il est pratiqu\u00e9 dans le golfe Persique[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financ\u00e9 par le gotha militaire et p\u00e9trolier du Golfe Persique[37]<\/a>, est dirig\u00e9 par Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, qui a travaill\u00e9 pendant des ann\u00e9es comme conseiller acad\u00e9mique pour l'ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, fond\u00e9 en 1994 par Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan dans le but de justifier le r\u00e9armement massif des \u00c9mirats et aujourd'hui dirig\u00e9 par le chef des lobbyistes \u00e9miratis en Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi) [38]<\/a>. L'ECSSR travaille pour la Tawazun Holding de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. En ao\u00fbt 2017, Tawazun avait vers\u00e9 20 millions de dollars \u00e0 l'ECSSR, et l'ECSSR les a vers\u00e9s \u00e0 l'Institut du Moyen-Orient \u00e0 Washington : une association d'anciens militaires am\u00e9ricains, qui a \u00e0 son tour vers\u00e9 cette somme \u00e0 divers g\u00e9n\u00e9raux et politiciens pour donner un coup de fouet aux contrats militaires entre les \u00c9tats-Unis et les EAU[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire simple : TRENDS et ECSSR sont deux v\u00e9hicules utilis\u00e9s pour corrompre les politiciens et les militaires occidentaux, et Vidino s'emploie \u00e0 en sugg\u00e9rer de nouveaux[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, en tout cas, a \u00e9t\u00e9 impliqu\u00e9 dans plusieurs scandales de trafic d'armes[41]<\/a> et dans l'achat de logiciels espions particuli\u00e8rement pointus, de Pegasus \u00e0 DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. La diligence avec laquelle Vidino et ses coll\u00e8gues (issus d'associations li\u00e9es aux \u00c9mirats arabes unis) op\u00e8rent est telle que m\u00eame dans le golfe Persique, des voix se sont \u00e9lev\u00e9es pour demander la fin des mensonges, avant que ces th\u00e8ses, avanc\u00e9es par Vidino, ne deviennent l'arme d'un quelconque imprudent[43]<\/a>. Trop tard : les th\u00e8ses du lobbyiste milanais ont \u00e9t\u00e9 reprises par Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, le fou qui, en 2012, a tu\u00e9 77 personnes, dont 69 participants \u00e0 un camp d'\u00e9t\u00e9 de la Ligue de la jeunesse ouvri\u00e8re[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La STR-12, l'une des armes les plus avanc\u00e9es sur le plan technologique, a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e en 2012 \u00e0 Abu Dhabi gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une collaboration entre TRENDS Research et Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bien s\u00fbr, Vidino n'est pas responsable du massacre perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 par un psychopathe. Mais cela devrait \u00e9galement inciter \u00e0 la prudence dans l'utilisation des conseils du lobbyiste milanais. Le contraire est vrai : en Italie, par exemple, les services secrets l'ont port\u00e9 au poste de coordinateur de la Commission d'\u00e9tude sur la radicalisation et l'extr\u00e9misme djihadiste[47]<\/a>, qui existait pendant les ann\u00e9es des gouvernements dirig\u00e9s par Matteo Renzi et Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, et l'ont confirm\u00e9 dans l'actuelle Commission de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[49]<\/a>. Un poste dans lequel M. Vidino est en mesure d'influencer les d\u00e9cisions politiques en mati\u00e8re diplomatique et militaire, mais aussi de contr\u00f4ler les r\u00e9sidents musulmans individuels en Italie. Un poste similaire lui a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 attribu\u00e9 au Royaume-Uni, mais il a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9voqu\u00e9 peu apr\u00e8s[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le probl\u00e8me est encore plus prononc\u00e9 en Autriche, o\u00f9 Vidino est membre du conseil consultatif de l'Observatoire de l'islam du gouvernement autrichien[51]<\/a>, au nom duquel il a r\u00e9dig\u00e9 un rapport visant \u00e0 obtenir l'ostracisme contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[52]<\/a>, et collabore activement avec les services secrets, pour lesquels il a aid\u00e9 \u00e0 produire une carte des associations et des lieux de culte musulmans dans le pays[53]<\/a>. Ses \u00e9crits contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont donn\u00e9 lieu \u00e0 une op\u00e9ration de police en novembre 2020, dont l'objectif \u00e9tait de d\u00e9sarmer ce que Vidino consid\u00e8re comme de dangereuses cellules terroristes[54]<\/a>, et qui n'a donn\u00e9 aucun r\u00e9sultat : malgr\u00e9 les efforts de centaines de policiers et la brutalit\u00e9 utilis\u00e9e, tous les accus\u00e9s se sont r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9s innocents[55]<\/a>. Un de ces cas typiques o\u00f9, comme le dit le dicton, la plume des \u00e9crivains tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e des soldats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tout cela devrait faire r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir les politiciens europ\u00e9ens : le scandale des pots-de-vin \u00e0 Bruxelles ne montre pas seulement la faiblesse du syst\u00e8me politique de l'Union, mais il met \u00e9galement en \u00e9vidence la mani\u00e8re tr\u00e8s dangereuse dont des pays \"dangereux\" comme les \u00c9mirats arabes unis et l'Arabie saoudite peuvent provoquer des actes de violence polici\u00e8re ou d'injustice criminelle dans certains \u00c9tats, \u00e0 commencer par l'Italie, la Su\u00e8de et l'Autriche - des nations dans lesquelles l'EFD et Vidino ont non seulement d'excellents contacts, mais occupent \u00e9galement des postes op\u00e9rationnels dans les ganglions les plus sensibles de l'administration publique. Personnellement, cela me conforte dans mon opinion : l'UE n'a pas d'alli\u00e9s - ni la Russie, ni la Chine, ni les pays arabes, ni m\u00eame (et presque personne ne le sait) les \u00c9tats-Unis d'Am\u00e9rique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

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His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Le maniaque norv\u00e9gien Anders Behring Breivik se r\u00e9f\u00e8re \u00e0 Hitler pour expliquer le massacre qu'il a perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 en 2012, mais cite aussi les textes de Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entre-temps, Vidino est devenu un orateur politique populaire. Son ami Al Otaiba l'a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 au ministre des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res des EAU Abdullah Bin Zayed en 2017, apr\u00e8s que Vidino ait beaucoup travaill\u00e9 avec Quiller Consultants, le cabinet de lobbying bas\u00e9 \u00e0 Londres qui place des articles pro-Abu Dhabi dans la presse britannique[33]<\/a>. Dans le magazine trimestriel Middle East Quarterly, Vidino a affirm\u00e9 que \"l'Europe est devenue un incubateur de la pens\u00e9e et du d\u00e9veloppement politique islamistes\" : selon lui, les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont construit un \"vaste r\u00e9seau bien organis\u00e9 de mosqu\u00e9es, d'organisations caritatives et d'organisations islamiques\", dont le but serait d'\u00e9tendre le radicalisme islamique \u00e0 l'ensemble de l'Occident[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ces th\u00e8ses ne sont pas surprenantes. Son travail de lobbyiste \u00e0 l'EFD a conduit Vidino \u00e0 la prochaine \u00e9tape de sa carri\u00e8re : celle d'associ\u00e9 de TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, une agence d'\u00c9tat \u00e9miratie aux objectifs ambitieux : (a) analyser les menaces militaires, m\u00e9diatiques et cybern\u00e9tiques que repr\u00e9sentent les ennemis des monarchies du golfe Persique et impliquer les \u00c9tats-Unis dans les mesures visant \u00e0 r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 ces menaces ; b) d\u00e9signer et r\u00e9pertorier les adversaires des monarchies du golfe (d\u00e9finis tout court comme des \"terroristes\"), exercer des pressions diplomatiques pour qu'ils soient poursuivis, publier ce qu'il est possible de publier pour les discr\u00e9diter ; c) identifier, dans chaque pays, des alli\u00e9s possibles et les contacter ; d) identifier les personnes qui ont des int\u00e9r\u00eats dans les monarchies du golfe Persique et les contacter. d) pr\u00e9parer les \u00c9mirats \u00e0 un conflit militaire, en analysant ses co\u00fbts et ses avantages, et \u00e9valuer les \u00e9tapes n\u00e9cessaires pour s'assurer une place \u00e0 la table o\u00f9 sont distribu\u00e9s les lucratifs contrats de reconstruction ; e) financer des projets d'intelligence artificielle et de cybern\u00e9tique ayant des applications militaires utiles ; f) an\u00e9antir les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ; g) identifier des projets d'investissement \u00e9conomique et infrastructurel dans des pays pr\u00eats \u00e0 recevoir le message de l'islam tel qu'il est pratiqu\u00e9 dans le golfe Persique[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financ\u00e9 par le gotha militaire et p\u00e9trolier du Golfe Persique[37]<\/a>, est dirig\u00e9 par Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, qui a travaill\u00e9 pendant des ann\u00e9es comme conseiller acad\u00e9mique pour l'ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, fond\u00e9 en 1994 par Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan dans le but de justifier le r\u00e9armement massif des \u00c9mirats et aujourd'hui dirig\u00e9 par le chef des lobbyistes \u00e9miratis en Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi) [38]<\/a>. L'ECSSR travaille pour la Tawazun Holding de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. En ao\u00fbt 2017, Tawazun avait vers\u00e9 20 millions de dollars \u00e0 l'ECSSR, et l'ECSSR les a vers\u00e9s \u00e0 l'Institut du Moyen-Orient \u00e0 Washington : une association d'anciens militaires am\u00e9ricains, qui a \u00e0 son tour vers\u00e9 cette somme \u00e0 divers g\u00e9n\u00e9raux et politiciens pour donner un coup de fouet aux contrats militaires entre les \u00c9tats-Unis et les EAU[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire simple : TRENDS et ECSSR sont deux v\u00e9hicules utilis\u00e9s pour corrompre les politiciens et les militaires occidentaux, et Vidino s'emploie \u00e0 en sugg\u00e9rer de nouveaux[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, en tout cas, a \u00e9t\u00e9 impliqu\u00e9 dans plusieurs scandales de trafic d'armes[41]<\/a> et dans l'achat de logiciels espions particuli\u00e8rement pointus, de Pegasus \u00e0 DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. La diligence avec laquelle Vidino et ses coll\u00e8gues (issus d'associations li\u00e9es aux \u00c9mirats arabes unis) op\u00e8rent est telle que m\u00eame dans le golfe Persique, des voix se sont \u00e9lev\u00e9es pour demander la fin des mensonges, avant que ces th\u00e8ses, avanc\u00e9es par Vidino, ne deviennent l'arme d'un quelconque imprudent[43]<\/a>. Trop tard : les th\u00e8ses du lobbyiste milanais ont \u00e9t\u00e9 reprises par Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, le fou qui, en 2012, a tu\u00e9 77 personnes, dont 69 participants \u00e0 un camp d'\u00e9t\u00e9 de la Ligue de la jeunesse ouvri\u00e8re[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La STR-12, l'une des armes les plus avanc\u00e9es sur le plan technologique, a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e en 2012 \u00e0 Abu Dhabi gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une collaboration entre TRENDS Research et Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bien s\u00fbr, Vidino n'est pas responsable du massacre perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 par un psychopathe. Mais cela devrait \u00e9galement inciter \u00e0 la prudence dans l'utilisation des conseils du lobbyiste milanais. Le contraire est vrai : en Italie, par exemple, les services secrets l'ont port\u00e9 au poste de coordinateur de la Commission d'\u00e9tude sur la radicalisation et l'extr\u00e9misme djihadiste[47]<\/a>, qui existait pendant les ann\u00e9es des gouvernements dirig\u00e9s par Matteo Renzi et Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, et l'ont confirm\u00e9 dans l'actuelle Commission de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[49]<\/a>. Un poste dans lequel M. Vidino est en mesure d'influencer les d\u00e9cisions politiques en mati\u00e8re diplomatique et militaire, mais aussi de contr\u00f4ler les r\u00e9sidents musulmans individuels en Italie. Un poste similaire lui a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 attribu\u00e9 au Royaume-Uni, mais il a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9voqu\u00e9 peu apr\u00e8s[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le probl\u00e8me est encore plus prononc\u00e9 en Autriche, o\u00f9 Vidino est membre du conseil consultatif de l'Observatoire de l'islam du gouvernement autrichien[51]<\/a>, au nom duquel il a r\u00e9dig\u00e9 un rapport visant \u00e0 obtenir l'ostracisme contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[52]<\/a>, et collabore activement avec les services secrets, pour lesquels il a aid\u00e9 \u00e0 produire une carte des associations et des lieux de culte musulmans dans le pays[53]<\/a>. Ses \u00e9crits contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont donn\u00e9 lieu \u00e0 une op\u00e9ration de police en novembre 2020, dont l'objectif \u00e9tait de d\u00e9sarmer ce que Vidino consid\u00e8re comme de dangereuses cellules terroristes[54]<\/a>, et qui n'a donn\u00e9 aucun r\u00e9sultat : malgr\u00e9 les efforts de centaines de policiers et la brutalit\u00e9 utilis\u00e9e, tous les accus\u00e9s se sont r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9s innocents[55]<\/a>. Un de ces cas typiques o\u00f9, comme le dit le dicton, la plume des \u00e9crivains tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e des soldats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tout cela devrait faire r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir les politiciens europ\u00e9ens : le scandale des pots-de-vin \u00e0 Bruxelles ne montre pas seulement la faiblesse du syst\u00e8me politique de l'Union, mais il met \u00e9galement en \u00e9vidence la mani\u00e8re tr\u00e8s dangereuse dont des pays \"dangereux\" comme les \u00c9mirats arabes unis et l'Arabie saoudite peuvent provoquer des actes de violence polici\u00e8re ou d'injustice criminelle dans certains \u00c9tats, \u00e0 commencer par l'Italie, la Su\u00e8de et l'Autriche - des nations dans lesquelles l'EFD et Vidino ont non seulement d'excellents contacts, mais occupent \u00e9galement des postes op\u00e9rationnels dans les ganglions les plus sensibles de l'administration publique. Personnellement, cela me conforte dans mon opinion : l'UE n'a pas d'alli\u00e9s - ni la Russie, ni la Chine, ni les pays arabes, ni m\u00eame (et presque personne ne le sait) les \u00c9tats-Unis d'Am\u00e9rique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

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His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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L'inspiration de Breivik<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Le maniaque norv\u00e9gien Anders Behring Breivik se r\u00e9f\u00e8re \u00e0 Hitler pour expliquer le massacre qu'il a perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 en 2012, mais cite aussi les textes de Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entre-temps, Vidino est devenu un orateur politique populaire. Son ami Al Otaiba l'a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 au ministre des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res des EAU Abdullah Bin Zayed en 2017, apr\u00e8s que Vidino ait beaucoup travaill\u00e9 avec Quiller Consultants, le cabinet de lobbying bas\u00e9 \u00e0 Londres qui place des articles pro-Abu Dhabi dans la presse britannique[33]<\/a>. Dans le magazine trimestriel Middle East Quarterly, Vidino a affirm\u00e9 que \"l'Europe est devenue un incubateur de la pens\u00e9e et du d\u00e9veloppement politique islamistes\" : selon lui, les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont construit un \"vaste r\u00e9seau bien organis\u00e9 de mosqu\u00e9es, d'organisations caritatives et d'organisations islamiques\", dont le but serait d'\u00e9tendre le radicalisme islamique \u00e0 l'ensemble de l'Occident[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ces th\u00e8ses ne sont pas surprenantes. Son travail de lobbyiste \u00e0 l'EFD a conduit Vidino \u00e0 la prochaine \u00e9tape de sa carri\u00e8re : celle d'associ\u00e9 de TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, une agence d'\u00c9tat \u00e9miratie aux objectifs ambitieux : (a) analyser les menaces militaires, m\u00e9diatiques et cybern\u00e9tiques que repr\u00e9sentent les ennemis des monarchies du golfe Persique et impliquer les \u00c9tats-Unis dans les mesures visant \u00e0 r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 ces menaces ; b) d\u00e9signer et r\u00e9pertorier les adversaires des monarchies du golfe (d\u00e9finis tout court comme des \"terroristes\"), exercer des pressions diplomatiques pour qu'ils soient poursuivis, publier ce qu'il est possible de publier pour les discr\u00e9diter ; c) identifier, dans chaque pays, des alli\u00e9s possibles et les contacter ; d) identifier les personnes qui ont des int\u00e9r\u00eats dans les monarchies du golfe Persique et les contacter. d) pr\u00e9parer les \u00c9mirats \u00e0 un conflit militaire, en analysant ses co\u00fbts et ses avantages, et \u00e9valuer les \u00e9tapes n\u00e9cessaires pour s'assurer une place \u00e0 la table o\u00f9 sont distribu\u00e9s les lucratifs contrats de reconstruction ; e) financer des projets d'intelligence artificielle et de cybern\u00e9tique ayant des applications militaires utiles ; f) an\u00e9antir les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ; g) identifier des projets d'investissement \u00e9conomique et infrastructurel dans des pays pr\u00eats \u00e0 recevoir le message de l'islam tel qu'il est pratiqu\u00e9 dans le golfe Persique[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financ\u00e9 par le gotha militaire et p\u00e9trolier du Golfe Persique[37]<\/a>, est dirig\u00e9 par Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, qui a travaill\u00e9 pendant des ann\u00e9es comme conseiller acad\u00e9mique pour l'ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, fond\u00e9 en 1994 par Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan dans le but de justifier le r\u00e9armement massif des \u00c9mirats et aujourd'hui dirig\u00e9 par le chef des lobbyistes \u00e9miratis en Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi) [38]<\/a>. L'ECSSR travaille pour la Tawazun Holding de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. En ao\u00fbt 2017, Tawazun avait vers\u00e9 20 millions de dollars \u00e0 l'ECSSR, et l'ECSSR les a vers\u00e9s \u00e0 l'Institut du Moyen-Orient \u00e0 Washington : une association d'anciens militaires am\u00e9ricains, qui a \u00e0 son tour vers\u00e9 cette somme \u00e0 divers g\u00e9n\u00e9raux et politiciens pour donner un coup de fouet aux contrats militaires entre les \u00c9tats-Unis et les EAU[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire simple : TRENDS et ECSSR sont deux v\u00e9hicules utilis\u00e9s pour corrompre les politiciens et les militaires occidentaux, et Vidino s'emploie \u00e0 en sugg\u00e9rer de nouveaux[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, en tout cas, a \u00e9t\u00e9 impliqu\u00e9 dans plusieurs scandales de trafic d'armes[41]<\/a> et dans l'achat de logiciels espions particuli\u00e8rement pointus, de Pegasus \u00e0 DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. La diligence avec laquelle Vidino et ses coll\u00e8gues (issus d'associations li\u00e9es aux \u00c9mirats arabes unis) op\u00e8rent est telle que m\u00eame dans le golfe Persique, des voix se sont \u00e9lev\u00e9es pour demander la fin des mensonges, avant que ces th\u00e8ses, avanc\u00e9es par Vidino, ne deviennent l'arme d'un quelconque imprudent[43]<\/a>. Trop tard : les th\u00e8ses du lobbyiste milanais ont \u00e9t\u00e9 reprises par Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, le fou qui, en 2012, a tu\u00e9 77 personnes, dont 69 participants \u00e0 un camp d'\u00e9t\u00e9 de la Ligue de la jeunesse ouvri\u00e8re[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La STR-12, l'une des armes les plus avanc\u00e9es sur le plan technologique, a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e en 2012 \u00e0 Abu Dhabi gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une collaboration entre TRENDS Research et Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bien s\u00fbr, Vidino n'est pas responsable du massacre perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 par un psychopathe. Mais cela devrait \u00e9galement inciter \u00e0 la prudence dans l'utilisation des conseils du lobbyiste milanais. Le contraire est vrai : en Italie, par exemple, les services secrets l'ont port\u00e9 au poste de coordinateur de la Commission d'\u00e9tude sur la radicalisation et l'extr\u00e9misme djihadiste[47]<\/a>, qui existait pendant les ann\u00e9es des gouvernements dirig\u00e9s par Matteo Renzi et Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, et l'ont confirm\u00e9 dans l'actuelle Commission de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[49]<\/a>. Un poste dans lequel M. Vidino est en mesure d'influencer les d\u00e9cisions politiques en mati\u00e8re diplomatique et militaire, mais aussi de contr\u00f4ler les r\u00e9sidents musulmans individuels en Italie. Un poste similaire lui a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 attribu\u00e9 au Royaume-Uni, mais il a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9voqu\u00e9 peu apr\u00e8s[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le probl\u00e8me est encore plus prononc\u00e9 en Autriche, o\u00f9 Vidino est membre du conseil consultatif de l'Observatoire de l'islam du gouvernement autrichien[51]<\/a>, au nom duquel il a r\u00e9dig\u00e9 un rapport visant \u00e0 obtenir l'ostracisme contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[52]<\/a>, et collabore activement avec les services secrets, pour lesquels il a aid\u00e9 \u00e0 produire une carte des associations et des lieux de culte musulmans dans le pays[53]<\/a>. Ses \u00e9crits contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont donn\u00e9 lieu \u00e0 une op\u00e9ration de police en novembre 2020, dont l'objectif \u00e9tait de d\u00e9sarmer ce que Vidino consid\u00e8re comme de dangereuses cellules terroristes[54]<\/a>, et qui n'a donn\u00e9 aucun r\u00e9sultat : malgr\u00e9 les efforts de centaines de policiers et la brutalit\u00e9 utilis\u00e9e, tous les accus\u00e9s se sont r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9s innocents[55]<\/a>. Un de ces cas typiques o\u00f9, comme le dit le dicton, la plume des \u00e9crivains tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e des soldats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tout cela devrait faire r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir les politiciens europ\u00e9ens : le scandale des pots-de-vin \u00e0 Bruxelles ne montre pas seulement la faiblesse du syst\u00e8me politique de l'Union, mais il met \u00e9galement en \u00e9vidence la mani\u00e8re tr\u00e8s dangereuse dont des pays \"dangereux\" comme les \u00c9mirats arabes unis et l'Arabie saoudite peuvent provoquer des actes de violence polici\u00e8re ou d'injustice criminelle dans certains \u00c9tats, \u00e0 commencer par l'Italie, la Su\u00e8de et l'Autriche - des nations dans lesquelles l'EFD et Vidino ont non seulement d'excellents contacts, mais occupent \u00e9galement des postes op\u00e9rationnels dans les ganglions les plus sensibles de l'administration publique. Personnellement, cela me conforte dans mon opinion : l'UE n'a pas d'alli\u00e9s - ni la Russie, ni la Chine, ni les pays arabes, ni m\u00eame (et presque personne ne le sait) les \u00c9tats-Unis d'Am\u00e9rique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

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His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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En outre, l'EFD est \u00e9troitement li\u00e9 (sur le plan politique et organisationnel) \u00e0 la FDD (Fondation pour la d\u00e9fense des d\u00e9mocraties[25]<\/a>), qui, aux \u00c9tats-Unis, s'efforce d'obtenir des fonds pour l'EFD[26]<\/a>. Le FDD est l'une des organisations les plus radicales en faveur d'Isra\u00ebl et contre les pays arabes qui n'ont pas d'accord avec Tel Aviv, en premier lieu l'Iran[27]<\/a>. L'objectif du FDD est de pousser Washington, sur la base d'affirmations non fond\u00e9es (et souvent ouvertement fausses), \u00e0 mener des op\u00e9rations militaires en Syrie, en Iran, au Liban et dans d'autres pays du Moyen-Orient[28]<\/a>. Une th\u00e8se favorite des dirigeants du FDD consiste \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein et Oussama Ben Laden comme les dirigeants de la m\u00eame organisation terroriste responsable de l'attaque des tours jumelles \u00e0 New York le 11 septembre 2001 : le mouvement pour la lib\u00e9ration de la Palestine !!![29]<\/a>  Comme il est \u00e9vident, les dirigeants du FDD (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz et Jonathan Schanzer) sont des partisans ouverts de Donald Trump et de sa ligne sur les questions du Moyen-Orient[30]<\/a>. En 2009 d\u00e9j\u00e0, le FDD a vers\u00e9 pr\u00e8s d'un demi-million de dollars \u00e0 l'EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'inspiration de Breivik<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Le maniaque norv\u00e9gien Anders Behring Breivik se r\u00e9f\u00e8re \u00e0 Hitler pour expliquer le massacre qu'il a perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 en 2012, mais cite aussi les textes de Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entre-temps, Vidino est devenu un orateur politique populaire. Son ami Al Otaiba l'a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 au ministre des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res des EAU Abdullah Bin Zayed en 2017, apr\u00e8s que Vidino ait beaucoup travaill\u00e9 avec Quiller Consultants, le cabinet de lobbying bas\u00e9 \u00e0 Londres qui place des articles pro-Abu Dhabi dans la presse britannique[33]<\/a>. Dans le magazine trimestriel Middle East Quarterly, Vidino a affirm\u00e9 que \"l'Europe est devenue un incubateur de la pens\u00e9e et du d\u00e9veloppement politique islamistes\" : selon lui, les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont construit un \"vaste r\u00e9seau bien organis\u00e9 de mosqu\u00e9es, d'organisations caritatives et d'organisations islamiques\", dont le but serait d'\u00e9tendre le radicalisme islamique \u00e0 l'ensemble de l'Occident[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ces th\u00e8ses ne sont pas surprenantes. Son travail de lobbyiste \u00e0 l'EFD a conduit Vidino \u00e0 la prochaine \u00e9tape de sa carri\u00e8re : celle d'associ\u00e9 de TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, une agence d'\u00c9tat \u00e9miratie aux objectifs ambitieux : (a) analyser les menaces militaires, m\u00e9diatiques et cybern\u00e9tiques que repr\u00e9sentent les ennemis des monarchies du golfe Persique et impliquer les \u00c9tats-Unis dans les mesures visant \u00e0 r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 ces menaces ; b) d\u00e9signer et r\u00e9pertorier les adversaires des monarchies du golfe (d\u00e9finis tout court comme des \"terroristes\"), exercer des pressions diplomatiques pour qu'ils soient poursuivis, publier ce qu'il est possible de publier pour les discr\u00e9diter ; c) identifier, dans chaque pays, des alli\u00e9s possibles et les contacter ; d) identifier les personnes qui ont des int\u00e9r\u00eats dans les monarchies du golfe Persique et les contacter. d) pr\u00e9parer les \u00c9mirats \u00e0 un conflit militaire, en analysant ses co\u00fbts et ses avantages, et \u00e9valuer les \u00e9tapes n\u00e9cessaires pour s'assurer une place \u00e0 la table o\u00f9 sont distribu\u00e9s les lucratifs contrats de reconstruction ; e) financer des projets d'intelligence artificielle et de cybern\u00e9tique ayant des applications militaires utiles ; f) an\u00e9antir les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ; g) identifier des projets d'investissement \u00e9conomique et infrastructurel dans des pays pr\u00eats \u00e0 recevoir le message de l'islam tel qu'il est pratiqu\u00e9 dans le golfe Persique[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financ\u00e9 par le gotha militaire et p\u00e9trolier du Golfe Persique[37]<\/a>, est dirig\u00e9 par Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, qui a travaill\u00e9 pendant des ann\u00e9es comme conseiller acad\u00e9mique pour l'ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, fond\u00e9 en 1994 par Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan dans le but de justifier le r\u00e9armement massif des \u00c9mirats et aujourd'hui dirig\u00e9 par le chef des lobbyistes \u00e9miratis en Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi) [38]<\/a>. L'ECSSR travaille pour la Tawazun Holding de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. En ao\u00fbt 2017, Tawazun avait vers\u00e9 20 millions de dollars \u00e0 l'ECSSR, et l'ECSSR les a vers\u00e9s \u00e0 l'Institut du Moyen-Orient \u00e0 Washington : une association d'anciens militaires am\u00e9ricains, qui a \u00e0 son tour vers\u00e9 cette somme \u00e0 divers g\u00e9n\u00e9raux et politiciens pour donner un coup de fouet aux contrats militaires entre les \u00c9tats-Unis et les EAU[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire simple : TRENDS et ECSSR sont deux v\u00e9hicules utilis\u00e9s pour corrompre les politiciens et les militaires occidentaux, et Vidino s'emploie \u00e0 en sugg\u00e9rer de nouveaux[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, en tout cas, a \u00e9t\u00e9 impliqu\u00e9 dans plusieurs scandales de trafic d'armes[41]<\/a> et dans l'achat de logiciels espions particuli\u00e8rement pointus, de Pegasus \u00e0 DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. La diligence avec laquelle Vidino et ses coll\u00e8gues (issus d'associations li\u00e9es aux \u00c9mirats arabes unis) op\u00e8rent est telle que m\u00eame dans le golfe Persique, des voix se sont \u00e9lev\u00e9es pour demander la fin des mensonges, avant que ces th\u00e8ses, avanc\u00e9es par Vidino, ne deviennent l'arme d'un quelconque imprudent[43]<\/a>. Trop tard : les th\u00e8ses du lobbyiste milanais ont \u00e9t\u00e9 reprises par Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, le fou qui, en 2012, a tu\u00e9 77 personnes, dont 69 participants \u00e0 un camp d'\u00e9t\u00e9 de la Ligue de la jeunesse ouvri\u00e8re[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La STR-12, l'une des armes les plus avanc\u00e9es sur le plan technologique, a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e en 2012 \u00e0 Abu Dhabi gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une collaboration entre TRENDS Research et Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bien s\u00fbr, Vidino n'est pas responsable du massacre perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 par un psychopathe. Mais cela devrait \u00e9galement inciter \u00e0 la prudence dans l'utilisation des conseils du lobbyiste milanais. Le contraire est vrai : en Italie, par exemple, les services secrets l'ont port\u00e9 au poste de coordinateur de la Commission d'\u00e9tude sur la radicalisation et l'extr\u00e9misme djihadiste[47]<\/a>, qui existait pendant les ann\u00e9es des gouvernements dirig\u00e9s par Matteo Renzi et Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, et l'ont confirm\u00e9 dans l'actuelle Commission de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[49]<\/a>. Un poste dans lequel M. Vidino est en mesure d'influencer les d\u00e9cisions politiques en mati\u00e8re diplomatique et militaire, mais aussi de contr\u00f4ler les r\u00e9sidents musulmans individuels en Italie. Un poste similaire lui a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 attribu\u00e9 au Royaume-Uni, mais il a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9voqu\u00e9 peu apr\u00e8s[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le probl\u00e8me est encore plus prononc\u00e9 en Autriche, o\u00f9 Vidino est membre du conseil consultatif de l'Observatoire de l'islam du gouvernement autrichien[51]<\/a>, au nom duquel il a r\u00e9dig\u00e9 un rapport visant \u00e0 obtenir l'ostracisme contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[52]<\/a>, et collabore activement avec les services secrets, pour lesquels il a aid\u00e9 \u00e0 produire une carte des associations et des lieux de culte musulmans dans le pays[53]<\/a>. Ses \u00e9crits contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont donn\u00e9 lieu \u00e0 une op\u00e9ration de police en novembre 2020, dont l'objectif \u00e9tait de d\u00e9sarmer ce que Vidino consid\u00e8re comme de dangereuses cellules terroristes[54]<\/a>, et qui n'a donn\u00e9 aucun r\u00e9sultat : malgr\u00e9 les efforts de centaines de policiers et la brutalit\u00e9 utilis\u00e9e, tous les accus\u00e9s se sont r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9s innocents[55]<\/a>. Un de ces cas typiques o\u00f9, comme le dit le dicton, la plume des \u00e9crivains tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e des soldats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tout cela devrait faire r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir les politiciens europ\u00e9ens : le scandale des pots-de-vin \u00e0 Bruxelles ne montre pas seulement la faiblesse du syst\u00e8me politique de l'Union, mais il met \u00e9galement en \u00e9vidence la mani\u00e8re tr\u00e8s dangereuse dont des pays \"dangereux\" comme les \u00c9mirats arabes unis et l'Arabie saoudite peuvent provoquer des actes de violence polici\u00e8re ou d'injustice criminelle dans certains \u00c9tats, \u00e0 commencer par l'Italie, la Su\u00e8de et l'Autriche - des nations dans lesquelles l'EFD et Vidino ont non seulement d'excellents contacts, mais occupent \u00e9galement des postes op\u00e9rationnels dans les ganglions les plus sensibles de l'administration publique. Personnellement, cela me conforte dans mon opinion : l'UE n'a pas d'alli\u00e9s - ni la Russie, ni la Chine, ni les pays arabes, ni m\u00eame (et presque personne ne le sait) les \u00c9tats-Unis d'Am\u00e9rique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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L'activit\u00e9 principale de M. Bonazzi consiste \u00e0 diriger la propagande politique pro-arabe et pro-am\u00e9ricaine dans plusieurs pays europ\u00e9ens, en premier lieu l'Arm\u00e9nie et l'Azerba\u00efdjan[19]<\/a>. Selon Bonazzi, derri\u00e8re ceux qui r\u00e9clament la d\u00e9mocratie, il n'y a pas le r\u00eave d'une g\u00e9n\u00e9ration d'Arabes qui veulent la fin du chauvinisme islamique radical, mais pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment son contraire : la th\u00e9ocratie iranienne, qui combat les monarchies du Golfe, les consid\u00e9rant (comme les Am\u00e9ricains l'aiment) comme modernes, libertaires et progressistes. En ce sens, Bonazzi travaille \u00e9troitement avec l'ambassadeur des \u00c9mirats \u00e0 Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, l'un des principaux collaborateurs de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, l'homme cl\u00e9 du pouvoir saoudien et \u00e9mirati dans le monde[22]<\/a>, marchand d'armes[23]<\/a> et ami et conseiller influent de Donald Trump sur les questions du Moyen-Orient[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En outre, l'EFD est \u00e9troitement li\u00e9 (sur le plan politique et organisationnel) \u00e0 la FDD (Fondation pour la d\u00e9fense des d\u00e9mocraties[25]<\/a>), qui, aux \u00c9tats-Unis, s'efforce d'obtenir des fonds pour l'EFD[26]<\/a>. Le FDD est l'une des organisations les plus radicales en faveur d'Isra\u00ebl et contre les pays arabes qui n'ont pas d'accord avec Tel Aviv, en premier lieu l'Iran[27]<\/a>. L'objectif du FDD est de pousser Washington, sur la base d'affirmations non fond\u00e9es (et souvent ouvertement fausses), \u00e0 mener des op\u00e9rations militaires en Syrie, en Iran, au Liban et dans d'autres pays du Moyen-Orient[28]<\/a>. Une th\u00e8se favorite des dirigeants du FDD consiste \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein et Oussama Ben Laden comme les dirigeants de la m\u00eame organisation terroriste responsable de l'attaque des tours jumelles \u00e0 New York le 11 septembre 2001 : le mouvement pour la lib\u00e9ration de la Palestine !!![29]<\/a>  Comme il est \u00e9vident, les dirigeants du FDD (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz et Jonathan Schanzer) sont des partisans ouverts de Donald Trump et de sa ligne sur les questions du Moyen-Orient[30]<\/a>. En 2009 d\u00e9j\u00e0, le FDD a vers\u00e9 pr\u00e8s d'un demi-million de dollars \u00e0 l'EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'inspiration de Breivik<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Le maniaque norv\u00e9gien Anders Behring Breivik se r\u00e9f\u00e8re \u00e0 Hitler pour expliquer le massacre qu'il a perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 en 2012, mais cite aussi les textes de Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entre-temps, Vidino est devenu un orateur politique populaire. Son ami Al Otaiba l'a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 au ministre des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res des EAU Abdullah Bin Zayed en 2017, apr\u00e8s que Vidino ait beaucoup travaill\u00e9 avec Quiller Consultants, le cabinet de lobbying bas\u00e9 \u00e0 Londres qui place des articles pro-Abu Dhabi dans la presse britannique[33]<\/a>. Dans le magazine trimestriel Middle East Quarterly, Vidino a affirm\u00e9 que \"l'Europe est devenue un incubateur de la pens\u00e9e et du d\u00e9veloppement politique islamistes\" : selon lui, les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont construit un \"vaste r\u00e9seau bien organis\u00e9 de mosqu\u00e9es, d'organisations caritatives et d'organisations islamiques\", dont le but serait d'\u00e9tendre le radicalisme islamique \u00e0 l'ensemble de l'Occident[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ces th\u00e8ses ne sont pas surprenantes. Son travail de lobbyiste \u00e0 l'EFD a conduit Vidino \u00e0 la prochaine \u00e9tape de sa carri\u00e8re : celle d'associ\u00e9 de TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, une agence d'\u00c9tat \u00e9miratie aux objectifs ambitieux : (a) analyser les menaces militaires, m\u00e9diatiques et cybern\u00e9tiques que repr\u00e9sentent les ennemis des monarchies du golfe Persique et impliquer les \u00c9tats-Unis dans les mesures visant \u00e0 r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 ces menaces ; b) d\u00e9signer et r\u00e9pertorier les adversaires des monarchies du golfe (d\u00e9finis tout court comme des \"terroristes\"), exercer des pressions diplomatiques pour qu'ils soient poursuivis, publier ce qu'il est possible de publier pour les discr\u00e9diter ; c) identifier, dans chaque pays, des alli\u00e9s possibles et les contacter ; d) identifier les personnes qui ont des int\u00e9r\u00eats dans les monarchies du golfe Persique et les contacter. d) pr\u00e9parer les \u00c9mirats \u00e0 un conflit militaire, en analysant ses co\u00fbts et ses avantages, et \u00e9valuer les \u00e9tapes n\u00e9cessaires pour s'assurer une place \u00e0 la table o\u00f9 sont distribu\u00e9s les lucratifs contrats de reconstruction ; e) financer des projets d'intelligence artificielle et de cybern\u00e9tique ayant des applications militaires utiles ; f) an\u00e9antir les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ; g) identifier des projets d'investissement \u00e9conomique et infrastructurel dans des pays pr\u00eats \u00e0 recevoir le message de l'islam tel qu'il est pratiqu\u00e9 dans le golfe Persique[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financ\u00e9 par le gotha militaire et p\u00e9trolier du Golfe Persique[37]<\/a>, est dirig\u00e9 par Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, qui a travaill\u00e9 pendant des ann\u00e9es comme conseiller acad\u00e9mique pour l'ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, fond\u00e9 en 1994 par Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan dans le but de justifier le r\u00e9armement massif des \u00c9mirats et aujourd'hui dirig\u00e9 par le chef des lobbyistes \u00e9miratis en Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi) [38]<\/a>. L'ECSSR travaille pour la Tawazun Holding de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. En ao\u00fbt 2017, Tawazun avait vers\u00e9 20 millions de dollars \u00e0 l'ECSSR, et l'ECSSR les a vers\u00e9s \u00e0 l'Institut du Moyen-Orient \u00e0 Washington : une association d'anciens militaires am\u00e9ricains, qui a \u00e0 son tour vers\u00e9 cette somme \u00e0 divers g\u00e9n\u00e9raux et politiciens pour donner un coup de fouet aux contrats militaires entre les \u00c9tats-Unis et les EAU[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire simple : TRENDS et ECSSR sont deux v\u00e9hicules utilis\u00e9s pour corrompre les politiciens et les militaires occidentaux, et Vidino s'emploie \u00e0 en sugg\u00e9rer de nouveaux[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, en tout cas, a \u00e9t\u00e9 impliqu\u00e9 dans plusieurs scandales de trafic d'armes[41]<\/a> et dans l'achat de logiciels espions particuli\u00e8rement pointus, de Pegasus \u00e0 DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. La diligence avec laquelle Vidino et ses coll\u00e8gues (issus d'associations li\u00e9es aux \u00c9mirats arabes unis) op\u00e8rent est telle que m\u00eame dans le golfe Persique, des voix se sont \u00e9lev\u00e9es pour demander la fin des mensonges, avant que ces th\u00e8ses, avanc\u00e9es par Vidino, ne deviennent l'arme d'un quelconque imprudent[43]<\/a>. Trop tard : les th\u00e8ses du lobbyiste milanais ont \u00e9t\u00e9 reprises par Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, le fou qui, en 2012, a tu\u00e9 77 personnes, dont 69 participants \u00e0 un camp d'\u00e9t\u00e9 de la Ligue de la jeunesse ouvri\u00e8re[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La STR-12, l'une des armes les plus avanc\u00e9es sur le plan technologique, a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e en 2012 \u00e0 Abu Dhabi gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une collaboration entre TRENDS Research et Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bien s\u00fbr, Vidino n'est pas responsable du massacre perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 par un psychopathe. Mais cela devrait \u00e9galement inciter \u00e0 la prudence dans l'utilisation des conseils du lobbyiste milanais. Le contraire est vrai : en Italie, par exemple, les services secrets l'ont port\u00e9 au poste de coordinateur de la Commission d'\u00e9tude sur la radicalisation et l'extr\u00e9misme djihadiste[47]<\/a>, qui existait pendant les ann\u00e9es des gouvernements dirig\u00e9s par Matteo Renzi et Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, et l'ont confirm\u00e9 dans l'actuelle Commission de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[49]<\/a>. Un poste dans lequel M. Vidino est en mesure d'influencer les d\u00e9cisions politiques en mati\u00e8re diplomatique et militaire, mais aussi de contr\u00f4ler les r\u00e9sidents musulmans individuels en Italie. Un poste similaire lui a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 attribu\u00e9 au Royaume-Uni, mais il a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9voqu\u00e9 peu apr\u00e8s[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le probl\u00e8me est encore plus prononc\u00e9 en Autriche, o\u00f9 Vidino est membre du conseil consultatif de l'Observatoire de l'islam du gouvernement autrichien[51]<\/a>, au nom duquel il a r\u00e9dig\u00e9 un rapport visant \u00e0 obtenir l'ostracisme contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[52]<\/a>, et collabore activement avec les services secrets, pour lesquels il a aid\u00e9 \u00e0 produire une carte des associations et des lieux de culte musulmans dans le pays[53]<\/a>. Ses \u00e9crits contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont donn\u00e9 lieu \u00e0 une op\u00e9ration de police en novembre 2020, dont l'objectif \u00e9tait de d\u00e9sarmer ce que Vidino consid\u00e8re comme de dangereuses cellules terroristes[54]<\/a>, et qui n'a donn\u00e9 aucun r\u00e9sultat : malgr\u00e9 les efforts de centaines de policiers et la brutalit\u00e9 utilis\u00e9e, tous les accus\u00e9s se sont r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9s innocents[55]<\/a>. Un de ces cas typiques o\u00f9, comme le dit le dicton, la plume des \u00e9crivains tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e des soldats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tout cela devrait faire r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir les politiciens europ\u00e9ens : le scandale des pots-de-vin \u00e0 Bruxelles ne montre pas seulement la faiblesse du syst\u00e8me politique de l'Union, mais il met \u00e9galement en \u00e9vidence la mani\u00e8re tr\u00e8s dangereuse dont des pays \"dangereux\" comme les \u00c9mirats arabes unis et l'Arabie saoudite peuvent provoquer des actes de violence polici\u00e8re ou d'injustice criminelle dans certains \u00c9tats, \u00e0 commencer par l'Italie, la Su\u00e8de et l'Autriche - des nations dans lesquelles l'EFD et Vidino ont non seulement d'excellents contacts, mais occupent \u00e9galement des postes op\u00e9rationnels dans les ganglions les plus sensibles de l'administration publique. Personnellement, cela me conforte dans mon opinion : l'UE n'a pas d'alli\u00e9s - ni la Russie, ni la Chine, ni les pays arabes, ni m\u00eame (et presque personne ne le sait) les \u00c9tats-Unis d'Am\u00e9rique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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L'EFD est \u00e9galement financ\u00e9, depuis 2011, par des fonds provenant du budget de l'UE (environ 160 000 euros de contributions par an) et du gouvernement am\u00e9ricain (environ un demi-million de dollars) [15]<\/a>, et est dirig\u00e9 par Roberta Bonazzi, qui est \u00e9galement l'un des fondateurs de l'organisation[16]<\/a>. Mme Bonazzi, dont on sait qu'elle est \u00e0 la solde de plusieurs organisations d'extr\u00eame droite qui r\u00e9mun\u00e8rent l'EFD ou l'une de ses soci\u00e9t\u00e9s de conseil priv\u00e9es, comme Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, est c\u00e9l\u00e8bre pour son combat m\u00e9diatique contre le Hezbollah et sa tentative de lier cette organisation terroriste au mouvement de lib\u00e9ration de la Palestine et \u00e0 tous les jeunes musulmans qui luttent pour la d\u00e9mocratie dans le monde arabe[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'activit\u00e9 principale de M. Bonazzi consiste \u00e0 diriger la propagande politique pro-arabe et pro-am\u00e9ricaine dans plusieurs pays europ\u00e9ens, en premier lieu l'Arm\u00e9nie et l'Azerba\u00efdjan[19]<\/a>. Selon Bonazzi, derri\u00e8re ceux qui r\u00e9clament la d\u00e9mocratie, il n'y a pas le r\u00eave d'une g\u00e9n\u00e9ration d'Arabes qui veulent la fin du chauvinisme islamique radical, mais pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment son contraire : la th\u00e9ocratie iranienne, qui combat les monarchies du Golfe, les consid\u00e9rant (comme les Am\u00e9ricains l'aiment) comme modernes, libertaires et progressistes. En ce sens, Bonazzi travaille \u00e9troitement avec l'ambassadeur des \u00c9mirats \u00e0 Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, l'un des principaux collaborateurs de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, l'homme cl\u00e9 du pouvoir saoudien et \u00e9mirati dans le monde[22]<\/a>, marchand d'armes[23]<\/a> et ami et conseiller influent de Donald Trump sur les questions du Moyen-Orient[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En outre, l'EFD est \u00e9troitement li\u00e9 (sur le plan politique et organisationnel) \u00e0 la FDD (Fondation pour la d\u00e9fense des d\u00e9mocraties[25]<\/a>), qui, aux \u00c9tats-Unis, s'efforce d'obtenir des fonds pour l'EFD[26]<\/a>. Le FDD est l'une des organisations les plus radicales en faveur d'Isra\u00ebl et contre les pays arabes qui n'ont pas d'accord avec Tel Aviv, en premier lieu l'Iran[27]<\/a>. L'objectif du FDD est de pousser Washington, sur la base d'affirmations non fond\u00e9es (et souvent ouvertement fausses), \u00e0 mener des op\u00e9rations militaires en Syrie, en Iran, au Liban et dans d'autres pays du Moyen-Orient[28]<\/a>. Une th\u00e8se favorite des dirigeants du FDD consiste \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein et Oussama Ben Laden comme les dirigeants de la m\u00eame organisation terroriste responsable de l'attaque des tours jumelles \u00e0 New York le 11 septembre 2001 : le mouvement pour la lib\u00e9ration de la Palestine !!![29]<\/a>  Comme il est \u00e9vident, les dirigeants du FDD (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz et Jonathan Schanzer) sont des partisans ouverts de Donald Trump et de sa ligne sur les questions du Moyen-Orient[30]<\/a>. En 2009 d\u00e9j\u00e0, le FDD a vers\u00e9 pr\u00e8s d'un demi-million de dollars \u00e0 l'EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'inspiration de Breivik<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Le maniaque norv\u00e9gien Anders Behring Breivik se r\u00e9f\u00e8re \u00e0 Hitler pour expliquer le massacre qu'il a perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 en 2012, mais cite aussi les textes de Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entre-temps, Vidino est devenu un orateur politique populaire. Son ami Al Otaiba l'a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 au ministre des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res des EAU Abdullah Bin Zayed en 2017, apr\u00e8s que Vidino ait beaucoup travaill\u00e9 avec Quiller Consultants, le cabinet de lobbying bas\u00e9 \u00e0 Londres qui place des articles pro-Abu Dhabi dans la presse britannique[33]<\/a>. Dans le magazine trimestriel Middle East Quarterly, Vidino a affirm\u00e9 que \"l'Europe est devenue un incubateur de la pens\u00e9e et du d\u00e9veloppement politique islamistes\" : selon lui, les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont construit un \"vaste r\u00e9seau bien organis\u00e9 de mosqu\u00e9es, d'organisations caritatives et d'organisations islamiques\", dont le but serait d'\u00e9tendre le radicalisme islamique \u00e0 l'ensemble de l'Occident[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ces th\u00e8ses ne sont pas surprenantes. Son travail de lobbyiste \u00e0 l'EFD a conduit Vidino \u00e0 la prochaine \u00e9tape de sa carri\u00e8re : celle d'associ\u00e9 de TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, une agence d'\u00c9tat \u00e9miratie aux objectifs ambitieux : (a) analyser les menaces militaires, m\u00e9diatiques et cybern\u00e9tiques que repr\u00e9sentent les ennemis des monarchies du golfe Persique et impliquer les \u00c9tats-Unis dans les mesures visant \u00e0 r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 ces menaces ; b) d\u00e9signer et r\u00e9pertorier les adversaires des monarchies du golfe (d\u00e9finis tout court comme des \"terroristes\"), exercer des pressions diplomatiques pour qu'ils soient poursuivis, publier ce qu'il est possible de publier pour les discr\u00e9diter ; c) identifier, dans chaque pays, des alli\u00e9s possibles et les contacter ; d) identifier les personnes qui ont des int\u00e9r\u00eats dans les monarchies du golfe Persique et les contacter. d) pr\u00e9parer les \u00c9mirats \u00e0 un conflit militaire, en analysant ses co\u00fbts et ses avantages, et \u00e9valuer les \u00e9tapes n\u00e9cessaires pour s'assurer une place \u00e0 la table o\u00f9 sont distribu\u00e9s les lucratifs contrats de reconstruction ; e) financer des projets d'intelligence artificielle et de cybern\u00e9tique ayant des applications militaires utiles ; f) an\u00e9antir les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ; g) identifier des projets d'investissement \u00e9conomique et infrastructurel dans des pays pr\u00eats \u00e0 recevoir le message de l'islam tel qu'il est pratiqu\u00e9 dans le golfe Persique[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financ\u00e9 par le gotha militaire et p\u00e9trolier du Golfe Persique[37]<\/a>, est dirig\u00e9 par Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, qui a travaill\u00e9 pendant des ann\u00e9es comme conseiller acad\u00e9mique pour l'ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, fond\u00e9 en 1994 par Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan dans le but de justifier le r\u00e9armement massif des \u00c9mirats et aujourd'hui dirig\u00e9 par le chef des lobbyistes \u00e9miratis en Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi) [38]<\/a>. L'ECSSR travaille pour la Tawazun Holding de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. En ao\u00fbt 2017, Tawazun avait vers\u00e9 20 millions de dollars \u00e0 l'ECSSR, et l'ECSSR les a vers\u00e9s \u00e0 l'Institut du Moyen-Orient \u00e0 Washington : une association d'anciens militaires am\u00e9ricains, qui a \u00e0 son tour vers\u00e9 cette somme \u00e0 divers g\u00e9n\u00e9raux et politiciens pour donner un coup de fouet aux contrats militaires entre les \u00c9tats-Unis et les EAU[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire simple : TRENDS et ECSSR sont deux v\u00e9hicules utilis\u00e9s pour corrompre les politiciens et les militaires occidentaux, et Vidino s'emploie \u00e0 en sugg\u00e9rer de nouveaux[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, en tout cas, a \u00e9t\u00e9 impliqu\u00e9 dans plusieurs scandales de trafic d'armes[41]<\/a> et dans l'achat de logiciels espions particuli\u00e8rement pointus, de Pegasus \u00e0 DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. La diligence avec laquelle Vidino et ses coll\u00e8gues (issus d'associations li\u00e9es aux \u00c9mirats arabes unis) op\u00e8rent est telle que m\u00eame dans le golfe Persique, des voix se sont \u00e9lev\u00e9es pour demander la fin des mensonges, avant que ces th\u00e8ses, avanc\u00e9es par Vidino, ne deviennent l'arme d'un quelconque imprudent[43]<\/a>. Trop tard : les th\u00e8ses du lobbyiste milanais ont \u00e9t\u00e9 reprises par Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, le fou qui, en 2012, a tu\u00e9 77 personnes, dont 69 participants \u00e0 un camp d'\u00e9t\u00e9 de la Ligue de la jeunesse ouvri\u00e8re[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La STR-12, l'une des armes les plus avanc\u00e9es sur le plan technologique, a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e en 2012 \u00e0 Abu Dhabi gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une collaboration entre TRENDS Research et Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bien s\u00fbr, Vidino n'est pas responsable du massacre perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 par un psychopathe. Mais cela devrait \u00e9galement inciter \u00e0 la prudence dans l'utilisation des conseils du lobbyiste milanais. Le contraire est vrai : en Italie, par exemple, les services secrets l'ont port\u00e9 au poste de coordinateur de la Commission d'\u00e9tude sur la radicalisation et l'extr\u00e9misme djihadiste[47]<\/a>, qui existait pendant les ann\u00e9es des gouvernements dirig\u00e9s par Matteo Renzi et Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, et l'ont confirm\u00e9 dans l'actuelle Commission de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[49]<\/a>. Un poste dans lequel M. Vidino est en mesure d'influencer les d\u00e9cisions politiques en mati\u00e8re diplomatique et militaire, mais aussi de contr\u00f4ler les r\u00e9sidents musulmans individuels en Italie. Un poste similaire lui a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 attribu\u00e9 au Royaume-Uni, mais il a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9voqu\u00e9 peu apr\u00e8s[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le probl\u00e8me est encore plus prononc\u00e9 en Autriche, o\u00f9 Vidino est membre du conseil consultatif de l'Observatoire de l'islam du gouvernement autrichien[51]<\/a>, au nom duquel il a r\u00e9dig\u00e9 un rapport visant \u00e0 obtenir l'ostracisme contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[52]<\/a>, et collabore activement avec les services secrets, pour lesquels il a aid\u00e9 \u00e0 produire une carte des associations et des lieux de culte musulmans dans le pays[53]<\/a>. Ses \u00e9crits contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont donn\u00e9 lieu \u00e0 une op\u00e9ration de police en novembre 2020, dont l'objectif \u00e9tait de d\u00e9sarmer ce que Vidino consid\u00e8re comme de dangereuses cellules terroristes[54]<\/a>, et qui n'a donn\u00e9 aucun r\u00e9sultat : malgr\u00e9 les efforts de centaines de policiers et la brutalit\u00e9 utilis\u00e9e, tous les accus\u00e9s se sont r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9s innocents[55]<\/a>. Un de ces cas typiques o\u00f9, comme le dit le dicton, la plume des \u00e9crivains tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e des soldats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tout cela devrait faire r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir les politiciens europ\u00e9ens : le scandale des pots-de-vin \u00e0 Bruxelles ne montre pas seulement la faiblesse du syst\u00e8me politique de l'Union, mais il met \u00e9galement en \u00e9vidence la mani\u00e8re tr\u00e8s dangereuse dont des pays \"dangereux\" comme les \u00c9mirats arabes unis et l'Arabie saoudite peuvent provoquer des actes de violence polici\u00e8re ou d'injustice criminelle dans certains \u00c9tats, \u00e0 commencer par l'Italie, la Su\u00e8de et l'Autriche - des nations dans lesquelles l'EFD et Vidino ont non seulement d'excellents contacts, mais occupent \u00e9galement des postes op\u00e9rationnels dans les ganglions les plus sensibles de l'administration publique. Personnellement, cela me conforte dans mon opinion : l'UE n'a pas d'alli\u00e9s - ni la Russie, ni la Chine, ni les pays arabes, ni m\u00eame (et presque personne ne le sait) les \u00c9tats-Unis d'Am\u00e9rique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Une vid\u00e9oconf\u00e9rence de Jonathan Schanzer, l'un des principaux collaborateurs du pr\u00e9sident isra\u00e9lien Netanyahu, leader du FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'EFD est \u00e9galement financ\u00e9, depuis 2011, par des fonds provenant du budget de l'UE (environ 160 000 euros de contributions par an) et du gouvernement am\u00e9ricain (environ un demi-million de dollars) [15]<\/a>, et est dirig\u00e9 par Roberta Bonazzi, qui est \u00e9galement l'un des fondateurs de l'organisation[16]<\/a>. Mme Bonazzi, dont on sait qu'elle est \u00e0 la solde de plusieurs organisations d'extr\u00eame droite qui r\u00e9mun\u00e8rent l'EFD ou l'une de ses soci\u00e9t\u00e9s de conseil priv\u00e9es, comme Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, est c\u00e9l\u00e8bre pour son combat m\u00e9diatique contre le Hezbollah et sa tentative de lier cette organisation terroriste au mouvement de lib\u00e9ration de la Palestine et \u00e0 tous les jeunes musulmans qui luttent pour la d\u00e9mocratie dans le monde arabe[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'activit\u00e9 principale de M. Bonazzi consiste \u00e0 diriger la propagande politique pro-arabe et pro-am\u00e9ricaine dans plusieurs pays europ\u00e9ens, en premier lieu l'Arm\u00e9nie et l'Azerba\u00efdjan[19]<\/a>. Selon Bonazzi, derri\u00e8re ceux qui r\u00e9clament la d\u00e9mocratie, il n'y a pas le r\u00eave d'une g\u00e9n\u00e9ration d'Arabes qui veulent la fin du chauvinisme islamique radical, mais pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment son contraire : la th\u00e9ocratie iranienne, qui combat les monarchies du Golfe, les consid\u00e9rant (comme les Am\u00e9ricains l'aiment) comme modernes, libertaires et progressistes. En ce sens, Bonazzi travaille \u00e9troitement avec l'ambassadeur des \u00c9mirats \u00e0 Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, l'un des principaux collaborateurs de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, l'homme cl\u00e9 du pouvoir saoudien et \u00e9mirati dans le monde[22]<\/a>, marchand d'armes[23]<\/a> et ami et conseiller influent de Donald Trump sur les questions du Moyen-Orient[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En outre, l'EFD est \u00e9troitement li\u00e9 (sur le plan politique et organisationnel) \u00e0 la FDD (Fondation pour la d\u00e9fense des d\u00e9mocraties[25]<\/a>), qui, aux \u00c9tats-Unis, s'efforce d'obtenir des fonds pour l'EFD[26]<\/a>. Le FDD est l'une des organisations les plus radicales en faveur d'Isra\u00ebl et contre les pays arabes qui n'ont pas d'accord avec Tel Aviv, en premier lieu l'Iran[27]<\/a>. L'objectif du FDD est de pousser Washington, sur la base d'affirmations non fond\u00e9es (et souvent ouvertement fausses), \u00e0 mener des op\u00e9rations militaires en Syrie, en Iran, au Liban et dans d'autres pays du Moyen-Orient[28]<\/a>. Une th\u00e8se favorite des dirigeants du FDD consiste \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein et Oussama Ben Laden comme les dirigeants de la m\u00eame organisation terroriste responsable de l'attaque des tours jumelles \u00e0 New York le 11 septembre 2001 : le mouvement pour la lib\u00e9ration de la Palestine !!![29]<\/a>  Comme il est \u00e9vident, les dirigeants du FDD (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz et Jonathan Schanzer) sont des partisans ouverts de Donald Trump et de sa ligne sur les questions du Moyen-Orient[30]<\/a>. En 2009 d\u00e9j\u00e0, le FDD a vers\u00e9 pr\u00e8s d'un demi-million de dollars \u00e0 l'EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'inspiration de Breivik<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Le maniaque norv\u00e9gien Anders Behring Breivik se r\u00e9f\u00e8re \u00e0 Hitler pour expliquer le massacre qu'il a perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 en 2012, mais cite aussi les textes de Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entre-temps, Vidino est devenu un orateur politique populaire. Son ami Al Otaiba l'a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 au ministre des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res des EAU Abdullah Bin Zayed en 2017, apr\u00e8s que Vidino ait beaucoup travaill\u00e9 avec Quiller Consultants, le cabinet de lobbying bas\u00e9 \u00e0 Londres qui place des articles pro-Abu Dhabi dans la presse britannique[33]<\/a>. Dans le magazine trimestriel Middle East Quarterly, Vidino a affirm\u00e9 que \"l'Europe est devenue un incubateur de la pens\u00e9e et du d\u00e9veloppement politique islamistes\" : selon lui, les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont construit un \"vaste r\u00e9seau bien organis\u00e9 de mosqu\u00e9es, d'organisations caritatives et d'organisations islamiques\", dont le but serait d'\u00e9tendre le radicalisme islamique \u00e0 l'ensemble de l'Occident[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ces th\u00e8ses ne sont pas surprenantes. Son travail de lobbyiste \u00e0 l'EFD a conduit Vidino \u00e0 la prochaine \u00e9tape de sa carri\u00e8re : celle d'associ\u00e9 de TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, une agence d'\u00c9tat \u00e9miratie aux objectifs ambitieux : (a) analyser les menaces militaires, m\u00e9diatiques et cybern\u00e9tiques que repr\u00e9sentent les ennemis des monarchies du golfe Persique et impliquer les \u00c9tats-Unis dans les mesures visant \u00e0 r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 ces menaces ; b) d\u00e9signer et r\u00e9pertorier les adversaires des monarchies du golfe (d\u00e9finis tout court comme des \"terroristes\"), exercer des pressions diplomatiques pour qu'ils soient poursuivis, publier ce qu'il est possible de publier pour les discr\u00e9diter ; c) identifier, dans chaque pays, des alli\u00e9s possibles et les contacter ; d) identifier les personnes qui ont des int\u00e9r\u00eats dans les monarchies du golfe Persique et les contacter. d) pr\u00e9parer les \u00c9mirats \u00e0 un conflit militaire, en analysant ses co\u00fbts et ses avantages, et \u00e9valuer les \u00e9tapes n\u00e9cessaires pour s'assurer une place \u00e0 la table o\u00f9 sont distribu\u00e9s les lucratifs contrats de reconstruction ; e) financer des projets d'intelligence artificielle et de cybern\u00e9tique ayant des applications militaires utiles ; f) an\u00e9antir les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ; g) identifier des projets d'investissement \u00e9conomique et infrastructurel dans des pays pr\u00eats \u00e0 recevoir le message de l'islam tel qu'il est pratiqu\u00e9 dans le golfe Persique[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financ\u00e9 par le gotha militaire et p\u00e9trolier du Golfe Persique[37]<\/a>, est dirig\u00e9 par Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, qui a travaill\u00e9 pendant des ann\u00e9es comme conseiller acad\u00e9mique pour l'ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, fond\u00e9 en 1994 par Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan dans le but de justifier le r\u00e9armement massif des \u00c9mirats et aujourd'hui dirig\u00e9 par le chef des lobbyistes \u00e9miratis en Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi) [38]<\/a>. L'ECSSR travaille pour la Tawazun Holding de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. En ao\u00fbt 2017, Tawazun avait vers\u00e9 20 millions de dollars \u00e0 l'ECSSR, et l'ECSSR les a vers\u00e9s \u00e0 l'Institut du Moyen-Orient \u00e0 Washington : une association d'anciens militaires am\u00e9ricains, qui a \u00e0 son tour vers\u00e9 cette somme \u00e0 divers g\u00e9n\u00e9raux et politiciens pour donner un coup de fouet aux contrats militaires entre les \u00c9tats-Unis et les EAU[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire simple : TRENDS et ECSSR sont deux v\u00e9hicules utilis\u00e9s pour corrompre les politiciens et les militaires occidentaux, et Vidino s'emploie \u00e0 en sugg\u00e9rer de nouveaux[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, en tout cas, a \u00e9t\u00e9 impliqu\u00e9 dans plusieurs scandales de trafic d'armes[41]<\/a> et dans l'achat de logiciels espions particuli\u00e8rement pointus, de Pegasus \u00e0 DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. La diligence avec laquelle Vidino et ses coll\u00e8gues (issus d'associations li\u00e9es aux \u00c9mirats arabes unis) op\u00e8rent est telle que m\u00eame dans le golfe Persique, des voix se sont \u00e9lev\u00e9es pour demander la fin des mensonges, avant que ces th\u00e8ses, avanc\u00e9es par Vidino, ne deviennent l'arme d'un quelconque imprudent[43]<\/a>. Trop tard : les th\u00e8ses du lobbyiste milanais ont \u00e9t\u00e9 reprises par Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, le fou qui, en 2012, a tu\u00e9 77 personnes, dont 69 participants \u00e0 un camp d'\u00e9t\u00e9 de la Ligue de la jeunesse ouvri\u00e8re[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La STR-12, l'une des armes les plus avanc\u00e9es sur le plan technologique, a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e en 2012 \u00e0 Abu Dhabi gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une collaboration entre TRENDS Research et Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bien s\u00fbr, Vidino n'est pas responsable du massacre perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 par un psychopathe. Mais cela devrait \u00e9galement inciter \u00e0 la prudence dans l'utilisation des conseils du lobbyiste milanais. Le contraire est vrai : en Italie, par exemple, les services secrets l'ont port\u00e9 au poste de coordinateur de la Commission d'\u00e9tude sur la radicalisation et l'extr\u00e9misme djihadiste[47]<\/a>, qui existait pendant les ann\u00e9es des gouvernements dirig\u00e9s par Matteo Renzi et Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, et l'ont confirm\u00e9 dans l'actuelle Commission de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[49]<\/a>. Un poste dans lequel M. Vidino est en mesure d'influencer les d\u00e9cisions politiques en mati\u00e8re diplomatique et militaire, mais aussi de contr\u00f4ler les r\u00e9sidents musulmans individuels en Italie. Un poste similaire lui a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 attribu\u00e9 au Royaume-Uni, mais il a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9voqu\u00e9 peu apr\u00e8s[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le probl\u00e8me est encore plus prononc\u00e9 en Autriche, o\u00f9 Vidino est membre du conseil consultatif de l'Observatoire de l'islam du gouvernement autrichien[51]<\/a>, au nom duquel il a r\u00e9dig\u00e9 un rapport visant \u00e0 obtenir l'ostracisme contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[52]<\/a>, et collabore activement avec les services secrets, pour lesquels il a aid\u00e9 \u00e0 produire une carte des associations et des lieux de culte musulmans dans le pays[53]<\/a>. Ses \u00e9crits contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont donn\u00e9 lieu \u00e0 une op\u00e9ration de police en novembre 2020, dont l'objectif \u00e9tait de d\u00e9sarmer ce que Vidino consid\u00e8re comme de dangereuses cellules terroristes[54]<\/a>, et qui n'a donn\u00e9 aucun r\u00e9sultat : malgr\u00e9 les efforts de centaines de policiers et la brutalit\u00e9 utilis\u00e9e, tous les accus\u00e9s se sont r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9s innocents[55]<\/a>. Un de ces cas typiques o\u00f9, comme le dit le dicton, la plume des \u00e9crivains tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e des soldats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tout cela devrait faire r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir les politiciens europ\u00e9ens : le scandale des pots-de-vin \u00e0 Bruxelles ne montre pas seulement la faiblesse du syst\u00e8me politique de l'Union, mais il met \u00e9galement en \u00e9vidence la mani\u00e8re tr\u00e8s dangereuse dont des pays \"dangereux\" comme les \u00c9mirats arabes unis et l'Arabie saoudite peuvent provoquer des actes de violence polici\u00e8re ou d'injustice criminelle dans certains \u00c9tats, \u00e0 commencer par l'Italie, la Su\u00e8de et l'Autriche - des nations dans lesquelles l'EFD et Vidino ont non seulement d'excellents contacts, mais occupent \u00e9galement des postes op\u00e9rationnels dans les ganglions les plus sensibles de l'administration publique. Personnellement, cela me conforte dans mon opinion : l'UE n'a pas d'alli\u00e9s - ni la Russie, ni la Chine, ni les pays arabes, ni m\u00eame (et presque personne ne le sait) les \u00c9tats-Unis d'Am\u00e9rique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une vid\u00e9oconf\u00e9rence de Jonathan Schanzer, l'un des principaux collaborateurs du pr\u00e9sident isra\u00e9lien Netanyahu, leader du FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'EFD est \u00e9galement financ\u00e9, depuis 2011, par des fonds provenant du budget de l'UE (environ 160 000 euros de contributions par an) et du gouvernement am\u00e9ricain (environ un demi-million de dollars) [15]<\/a>, et est dirig\u00e9 par Roberta Bonazzi, qui est \u00e9galement l'un des fondateurs de l'organisation[16]<\/a>. Mme Bonazzi, dont on sait qu'elle est \u00e0 la solde de plusieurs organisations d'extr\u00eame droite qui r\u00e9mun\u00e8rent l'EFD ou l'une de ses soci\u00e9t\u00e9s de conseil priv\u00e9es, comme Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, est c\u00e9l\u00e8bre pour son combat m\u00e9diatique contre le Hezbollah et sa tentative de lier cette organisation terroriste au mouvement de lib\u00e9ration de la Palestine et \u00e0 tous les jeunes musulmans qui luttent pour la d\u00e9mocratie dans le monde arabe[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'activit\u00e9 principale de M. Bonazzi consiste \u00e0 diriger la propagande politique pro-arabe et pro-am\u00e9ricaine dans plusieurs pays europ\u00e9ens, en premier lieu l'Arm\u00e9nie et l'Azerba\u00efdjan[19]<\/a>. Selon Bonazzi, derri\u00e8re ceux qui r\u00e9clament la d\u00e9mocratie, il n'y a pas le r\u00eave d'une g\u00e9n\u00e9ration d'Arabes qui veulent la fin du chauvinisme islamique radical, mais pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment son contraire : la th\u00e9ocratie iranienne, qui combat les monarchies du Golfe, les consid\u00e9rant (comme les Am\u00e9ricains l'aiment) comme modernes, libertaires et progressistes. En ce sens, Bonazzi travaille \u00e9troitement avec l'ambassadeur des \u00c9mirats \u00e0 Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, l'un des principaux collaborateurs de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, l'homme cl\u00e9 du pouvoir saoudien et \u00e9mirati dans le monde[22]<\/a>, marchand d'armes[23]<\/a> et ami et conseiller influent de Donald Trump sur les questions du Moyen-Orient[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En outre, l'EFD est \u00e9troitement li\u00e9 (sur le plan politique et organisationnel) \u00e0 la FDD (Fondation pour la d\u00e9fense des d\u00e9mocraties[25]<\/a>), qui, aux \u00c9tats-Unis, s'efforce d'obtenir des fonds pour l'EFD[26]<\/a>. Le FDD est l'une des organisations les plus radicales en faveur d'Isra\u00ebl et contre les pays arabes qui n'ont pas d'accord avec Tel Aviv, en premier lieu l'Iran[27]<\/a>. L'objectif du FDD est de pousser Washington, sur la base d'affirmations non fond\u00e9es (et souvent ouvertement fausses), \u00e0 mener des op\u00e9rations militaires en Syrie, en Iran, au Liban et dans d'autres pays du Moyen-Orient[28]<\/a>. Une th\u00e8se favorite des dirigeants du FDD consiste \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein et Oussama Ben Laden comme les dirigeants de la m\u00eame organisation terroriste responsable de l'attaque des tours jumelles \u00e0 New York le 11 septembre 2001 : le mouvement pour la lib\u00e9ration de la Palestine !!![29]<\/a>  Comme il est \u00e9vident, les dirigeants du FDD (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz et Jonathan Schanzer) sont des partisans ouverts de Donald Trump et de sa ligne sur les questions du Moyen-Orient[30]<\/a>. En 2009 d\u00e9j\u00e0, le FDD a vers\u00e9 pr\u00e8s d'un demi-million de dollars \u00e0 l'EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'inspiration de Breivik<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Le maniaque norv\u00e9gien Anders Behring Breivik se r\u00e9f\u00e8re \u00e0 Hitler pour expliquer le massacre qu'il a perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 en 2012, mais cite aussi les textes de Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entre-temps, Vidino est devenu un orateur politique populaire. Son ami Al Otaiba l'a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 au ministre des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res des EAU Abdullah Bin Zayed en 2017, apr\u00e8s que Vidino ait beaucoup travaill\u00e9 avec Quiller Consultants, le cabinet de lobbying bas\u00e9 \u00e0 Londres qui place des articles pro-Abu Dhabi dans la presse britannique[33]<\/a>. Dans le magazine trimestriel Middle East Quarterly, Vidino a affirm\u00e9 que \"l'Europe est devenue un incubateur de la pens\u00e9e et du d\u00e9veloppement politique islamistes\" : selon lui, les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont construit un \"vaste r\u00e9seau bien organis\u00e9 de mosqu\u00e9es, d'organisations caritatives et d'organisations islamiques\", dont le but serait d'\u00e9tendre le radicalisme islamique \u00e0 l'ensemble de l'Occident[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ces th\u00e8ses ne sont pas surprenantes. Son travail de lobbyiste \u00e0 l'EFD a conduit Vidino \u00e0 la prochaine \u00e9tape de sa carri\u00e8re : celle d'associ\u00e9 de TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, une agence d'\u00c9tat \u00e9miratie aux objectifs ambitieux : (a) analyser les menaces militaires, m\u00e9diatiques et cybern\u00e9tiques que repr\u00e9sentent les ennemis des monarchies du golfe Persique et impliquer les \u00c9tats-Unis dans les mesures visant \u00e0 r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 ces menaces ; b) d\u00e9signer et r\u00e9pertorier les adversaires des monarchies du golfe (d\u00e9finis tout court comme des \"terroristes\"), exercer des pressions diplomatiques pour qu'ils soient poursuivis, publier ce qu'il est possible de publier pour les discr\u00e9diter ; c) identifier, dans chaque pays, des alli\u00e9s possibles et les contacter ; d) identifier les personnes qui ont des int\u00e9r\u00eats dans les monarchies du golfe Persique et les contacter. d) pr\u00e9parer les \u00c9mirats \u00e0 un conflit militaire, en analysant ses co\u00fbts et ses avantages, et \u00e9valuer les \u00e9tapes n\u00e9cessaires pour s'assurer une place \u00e0 la table o\u00f9 sont distribu\u00e9s les lucratifs contrats de reconstruction ; e) financer des projets d'intelligence artificielle et de cybern\u00e9tique ayant des applications militaires utiles ; f) an\u00e9antir les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ; g) identifier des projets d'investissement \u00e9conomique et infrastructurel dans des pays pr\u00eats \u00e0 recevoir le message de l'islam tel qu'il est pratiqu\u00e9 dans le golfe Persique[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financ\u00e9 par le gotha militaire et p\u00e9trolier du Golfe Persique[37]<\/a>, est dirig\u00e9 par Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, qui a travaill\u00e9 pendant des ann\u00e9es comme conseiller acad\u00e9mique pour l'ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, fond\u00e9 en 1994 par Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan dans le but de justifier le r\u00e9armement massif des \u00c9mirats et aujourd'hui dirig\u00e9 par le chef des lobbyistes \u00e9miratis en Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi) [38]<\/a>. L'ECSSR travaille pour la Tawazun Holding de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. En ao\u00fbt 2017, Tawazun avait vers\u00e9 20 millions de dollars \u00e0 l'ECSSR, et l'ECSSR les a vers\u00e9s \u00e0 l'Institut du Moyen-Orient \u00e0 Washington : une association d'anciens militaires am\u00e9ricains, qui a \u00e0 son tour vers\u00e9 cette somme \u00e0 divers g\u00e9n\u00e9raux et politiciens pour donner un coup de fouet aux contrats militaires entre les \u00c9tats-Unis et les EAU[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire simple : TRENDS et ECSSR sont deux v\u00e9hicules utilis\u00e9s pour corrompre les politiciens et les militaires occidentaux, et Vidino s'emploie \u00e0 en sugg\u00e9rer de nouveaux[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, en tout cas, a \u00e9t\u00e9 impliqu\u00e9 dans plusieurs scandales de trafic d'armes[41]<\/a> et dans l'achat de logiciels espions particuli\u00e8rement pointus, de Pegasus \u00e0 DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. La diligence avec laquelle Vidino et ses coll\u00e8gues (issus d'associations li\u00e9es aux \u00c9mirats arabes unis) op\u00e8rent est telle que m\u00eame dans le golfe Persique, des voix se sont \u00e9lev\u00e9es pour demander la fin des mensonges, avant que ces th\u00e8ses, avanc\u00e9es par Vidino, ne deviennent l'arme d'un quelconque imprudent[43]<\/a>. Trop tard : les th\u00e8ses du lobbyiste milanais ont \u00e9t\u00e9 reprises par Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, le fou qui, en 2012, a tu\u00e9 77 personnes, dont 69 participants \u00e0 un camp d'\u00e9t\u00e9 de la Ligue de la jeunesse ouvri\u00e8re[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La STR-12, l'une des armes les plus avanc\u00e9es sur le plan technologique, a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e en 2012 \u00e0 Abu Dhabi gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une collaboration entre TRENDS Research et Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bien s\u00fbr, Vidino n'est pas responsable du massacre perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 par un psychopathe. Mais cela devrait \u00e9galement inciter \u00e0 la prudence dans l'utilisation des conseils du lobbyiste milanais. Le contraire est vrai : en Italie, par exemple, les services secrets l'ont port\u00e9 au poste de coordinateur de la Commission d'\u00e9tude sur la radicalisation et l'extr\u00e9misme djihadiste[47]<\/a>, qui existait pendant les ann\u00e9es des gouvernements dirig\u00e9s par Matteo Renzi et Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, et l'ont confirm\u00e9 dans l'actuelle Commission de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[49]<\/a>. Un poste dans lequel M. Vidino est en mesure d'influencer les d\u00e9cisions politiques en mati\u00e8re diplomatique et militaire, mais aussi de contr\u00f4ler les r\u00e9sidents musulmans individuels en Italie. Un poste similaire lui a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 attribu\u00e9 au Royaume-Uni, mais il a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9voqu\u00e9 peu apr\u00e8s[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le probl\u00e8me est encore plus prononc\u00e9 en Autriche, o\u00f9 Vidino est membre du conseil consultatif de l'Observatoire de l'islam du gouvernement autrichien[51]<\/a>, au nom duquel il a r\u00e9dig\u00e9 un rapport visant \u00e0 obtenir l'ostracisme contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[52]<\/a>, et collabore activement avec les services secrets, pour lesquels il a aid\u00e9 \u00e0 produire une carte des associations et des lieux de culte musulmans dans le pays[53]<\/a>. Ses \u00e9crits contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont donn\u00e9 lieu \u00e0 une op\u00e9ration de police en novembre 2020, dont l'objectif \u00e9tait de d\u00e9sarmer ce que Vidino consid\u00e8re comme de dangereuses cellules terroristes[54]<\/a>, et qui n'a donn\u00e9 aucun r\u00e9sultat : malgr\u00e9 les efforts de centaines de policiers et la brutalit\u00e9 utilis\u00e9e, tous les accus\u00e9s se sont r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9s innocents[55]<\/a>. Un de ces cas typiques o\u00f9, comme le dit le dicton, la plume des \u00e9crivains tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e des soldats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tout cela devrait faire r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir les politiciens europ\u00e9ens : le scandale des pots-de-vin \u00e0 Bruxelles ne montre pas seulement la faiblesse du syst\u00e8me politique de l'Union, mais il met \u00e9galement en \u00e9vidence la mani\u00e8re tr\u00e8s dangereuse dont des pays \"dangereux\" comme les \u00c9mirats arabes unis et l'Arabie saoudite peuvent provoquer des actes de violence polici\u00e8re ou d'injustice criminelle dans certains \u00c9tats, \u00e0 commencer par l'Italie, la Su\u00e8de et l'Autriche - des nations dans lesquelles l'EFD et Vidino ont non seulement d'excellents contacts, mais occupent \u00e9galement des postes op\u00e9rationnels dans les ganglions les plus sensibles de l'administration publique. Personnellement, cela me conforte dans mon opinion : l'UE n'a pas d'alli\u00e9s - ni la Russie, ni la Chine, ni les pays arabes, ni m\u00eame (et presque personne ne le sait) les \u00c9tats-Unis d'Am\u00e9rique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00c0 la fin de ses \u00e9tudes, apr\u00e8s avoir \u00e9galement effectu\u00e9 une p\u00e9riode de formation dans le plus important lobby de l'industrie militaire am\u00e9ricaine (l'\u00e9cole de la RAND Corporation \u00e0 Arlington, en Virginie, au Pentagone[10]<\/a>), Vidino a choisi d'entrer \u00e0 la EFD (Fondation europ\u00e9enne pour la d\u00e9mocratie[11]<\/a>) pour y d\u00e9fendre les int\u00e9r\u00eats nationaux am\u00e9ricains : une organisation bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Bruxelles, active depuis 2005, qui finance la propagande (au sein du Parlement europ\u00e9en[12]<\/a>) des th\u00e8ses n\u00e9oconservatrices am\u00e9ricaines, selon lesquelles il existe de \"bons\" musulmans (Arabie, \u00c9gypte et \u00c9mirats) et de \"mauvais\" musulmans (les Fr\u00e8res musulmans et une liste d'organisations pacifistes li\u00e9es aux mouvements d\u00e9mocratiques dits du printemps arabe, actifs principalement en Angleterre, en Autriche et en Su\u00e8de) - qui, selon l'EFD, sont li\u00e9s au terrorisme fondamentaliste. Une th\u00e8se d\u00e9mentie par les faits, mais fonctionnelle \u00e0 l'alliance entre Isra\u00ebl, l'Arabie Saoudite et les Emirats contre tous les adversaires des monarchies du monde arabe[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une vid\u00e9oconf\u00e9rence de Jonathan Schanzer, l'un des principaux collaborateurs du pr\u00e9sident isra\u00e9lien Netanyahu, leader du FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'EFD est \u00e9galement financ\u00e9, depuis 2011, par des fonds provenant du budget de l'UE (environ 160 000 euros de contributions par an) et du gouvernement am\u00e9ricain (environ un demi-million de dollars) [15]<\/a>, et est dirig\u00e9 par Roberta Bonazzi, qui est \u00e9galement l'un des fondateurs de l'organisation[16]<\/a>. Mme Bonazzi, dont on sait qu'elle est \u00e0 la solde de plusieurs organisations d'extr\u00eame droite qui r\u00e9mun\u00e8rent l'EFD ou l'une de ses soci\u00e9t\u00e9s de conseil priv\u00e9es, comme Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, est c\u00e9l\u00e8bre pour son combat m\u00e9diatique contre le Hezbollah et sa tentative de lier cette organisation terroriste au mouvement de lib\u00e9ration de la Palestine et \u00e0 tous les jeunes musulmans qui luttent pour la d\u00e9mocratie dans le monde arabe[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'activit\u00e9 principale de M. Bonazzi consiste \u00e0 diriger la propagande politique pro-arabe et pro-am\u00e9ricaine dans plusieurs pays europ\u00e9ens, en premier lieu l'Arm\u00e9nie et l'Azerba\u00efdjan[19]<\/a>. Selon Bonazzi, derri\u00e8re ceux qui r\u00e9clament la d\u00e9mocratie, il n'y a pas le r\u00eave d'une g\u00e9n\u00e9ration d'Arabes qui veulent la fin du chauvinisme islamique radical, mais pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment son contraire : la th\u00e9ocratie iranienne, qui combat les monarchies du Golfe, les consid\u00e9rant (comme les Am\u00e9ricains l'aiment) comme modernes, libertaires et progressistes. En ce sens, Bonazzi travaille \u00e9troitement avec l'ambassadeur des \u00c9mirats \u00e0 Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, l'un des principaux collaborateurs de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, l'homme cl\u00e9 du pouvoir saoudien et \u00e9mirati dans le monde[22]<\/a>, marchand d'armes[23]<\/a> et ami et conseiller influent de Donald Trump sur les questions du Moyen-Orient[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En outre, l'EFD est \u00e9troitement li\u00e9 (sur le plan politique et organisationnel) \u00e0 la FDD (Fondation pour la d\u00e9fense des d\u00e9mocraties[25]<\/a>), qui, aux \u00c9tats-Unis, s'efforce d'obtenir des fonds pour l'EFD[26]<\/a>. Le FDD est l'une des organisations les plus radicales en faveur d'Isra\u00ebl et contre les pays arabes qui n'ont pas d'accord avec Tel Aviv, en premier lieu l'Iran[27]<\/a>. L'objectif du FDD est de pousser Washington, sur la base d'affirmations non fond\u00e9es (et souvent ouvertement fausses), \u00e0 mener des op\u00e9rations militaires en Syrie, en Iran, au Liban et dans d'autres pays du Moyen-Orient[28]<\/a>. Une th\u00e8se favorite des dirigeants du FDD consiste \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein et Oussama Ben Laden comme les dirigeants de la m\u00eame organisation terroriste responsable de l'attaque des tours jumelles \u00e0 New York le 11 septembre 2001 : le mouvement pour la lib\u00e9ration de la Palestine !!![29]<\/a>  Comme il est \u00e9vident, les dirigeants du FDD (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz et Jonathan Schanzer) sont des partisans ouverts de Donald Trump et de sa ligne sur les questions du Moyen-Orient[30]<\/a>. En 2009 d\u00e9j\u00e0, le FDD a vers\u00e9 pr\u00e8s d'un demi-million de dollars \u00e0 l'EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'inspiration de Breivik<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Le maniaque norv\u00e9gien Anders Behring Breivik se r\u00e9f\u00e8re \u00e0 Hitler pour expliquer le massacre qu'il a perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 en 2012, mais cite aussi les textes de Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entre-temps, Vidino est devenu un orateur politique populaire. Son ami Al Otaiba l'a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 au ministre des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res des EAU Abdullah Bin Zayed en 2017, apr\u00e8s que Vidino ait beaucoup travaill\u00e9 avec Quiller Consultants, le cabinet de lobbying bas\u00e9 \u00e0 Londres qui place des articles pro-Abu Dhabi dans la presse britannique[33]<\/a>. Dans le magazine trimestriel Middle East Quarterly, Vidino a affirm\u00e9 que \"l'Europe est devenue un incubateur de la pens\u00e9e et du d\u00e9veloppement politique islamistes\" : selon lui, les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont construit un \"vaste r\u00e9seau bien organis\u00e9 de mosqu\u00e9es, d'organisations caritatives et d'organisations islamiques\", dont le but serait d'\u00e9tendre le radicalisme islamique \u00e0 l'ensemble de l'Occident[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ces th\u00e8ses ne sont pas surprenantes. Son travail de lobbyiste \u00e0 l'EFD a conduit Vidino \u00e0 la prochaine \u00e9tape de sa carri\u00e8re : celle d'associ\u00e9 de TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, une agence d'\u00c9tat \u00e9miratie aux objectifs ambitieux : (a) analyser les menaces militaires, m\u00e9diatiques et cybern\u00e9tiques que repr\u00e9sentent les ennemis des monarchies du golfe Persique et impliquer les \u00c9tats-Unis dans les mesures visant \u00e0 r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 ces menaces ; b) d\u00e9signer et r\u00e9pertorier les adversaires des monarchies du golfe (d\u00e9finis tout court comme des \"terroristes\"), exercer des pressions diplomatiques pour qu'ils soient poursuivis, publier ce qu'il est possible de publier pour les discr\u00e9diter ; c) identifier, dans chaque pays, des alli\u00e9s possibles et les contacter ; d) identifier les personnes qui ont des int\u00e9r\u00eats dans les monarchies du golfe Persique et les contacter. d) pr\u00e9parer les \u00c9mirats \u00e0 un conflit militaire, en analysant ses co\u00fbts et ses avantages, et \u00e9valuer les \u00e9tapes n\u00e9cessaires pour s'assurer une place \u00e0 la table o\u00f9 sont distribu\u00e9s les lucratifs contrats de reconstruction ; e) financer des projets d'intelligence artificielle et de cybern\u00e9tique ayant des applications militaires utiles ; f) an\u00e9antir les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ; g) identifier des projets d'investissement \u00e9conomique et infrastructurel dans des pays pr\u00eats \u00e0 recevoir le message de l'islam tel qu'il est pratiqu\u00e9 dans le golfe Persique[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financ\u00e9 par le gotha militaire et p\u00e9trolier du Golfe Persique[37]<\/a>, est dirig\u00e9 par Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, qui a travaill\u00e9 pendant des ann\u00e9es comme conseiller acad\u00e9mique pour l'ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, fond\u00e9 en 1994 par Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan dans le but de justifier le r\u00e9armement massif des \u00c9mirats et aujourd'hui dirig\u00e9 par le chef des lobbyistes \u00e9miratis en Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi) [38]<\/a>. L'ECSSR travaille pour la Tawazun Holding de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. En ao\u00fbt 2017, Tawazun avait vers\u00e9 20 millions de dollars \u00e0 l'ECSSR, et l'ECSSR les a vers\u00e9s \u00e0 l'Institut du Moyen-Orient \u00e0 Washington : une association d'anciens militaires am\u00e9ricains, qui a \u00e0 son tour vers\u00e9 cette somme \u00e0 divers g\u00e9n\u00e9raux et politiciens pour donner un coup de fouet aux contrats militaires entre les \u00c9tats-Unis et les EAU[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire simple : TRENDS et ECSSR sont deux v\u00e9hicules utilis\u00e9s pour corrompre les politiciens et les militaires occidentaux, et Vidino s'emploie \u00e0 en sugg\u00e9rer de nouveaux[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, en tout cas, a \u00e9t\u00e9 impliqu\u00e9 dans plusieurs scandales de trafic d'armes[41]<\/a> et dans l'achat de logiciels espions particuli\u00e8rement pointus, de Pegasus \u00e0 DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. La diligence avec laquelle Vidino et ses coll\u00e8gues (issus d'associations li\u00e9es aux \u00c9mirats arabes unis) op\u00e8rent est telle que m\u00eame dans le golfe Persique, des voix se sont \u00e9lev\u00e9es pour demander la fin des mensonges, avant que ces th\u00e8ses, avanc\u00e9es par Vidino, ne deviennent l'arme d'un quelconque imprudent[43]<\/a>. Trop tard : les th\u00e8ses du lobbyiste milanais ont \u00e9t\u00e9 reprises par Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, le fou qui, en 2012, a tu\u00e9 77 personnes, dont 69 participants \u00e0 un camp d'\u00e9t\u00e9 de la Ligue de la jeunesse ouvri\u00e8re[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La STR-12, l'une des armes les plus avanc\u00e9es sur le plan technologique, a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e en 2012 \u00e0 Abu Dhabi gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une collaboration entre TRENDS Research et Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bien s\u00fbr, Vidino n'est pas responsable du massacre perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 par un psychopathe. Mais cela devrait \u00e9galement inciter \u00e0 la prudence dans l'utilisation des conseils du lobbyiste milanais. Le contraire est vrai : en Italie, par exemple, les services secrets l'ont port\u00e9 au poste de coordinateur de la Commission d'\u00e9tude sur la radicalisation et l'extr\u00e9misme djihadiste[47]<\/a>, qui existait pendant les ann\u00e9es des gouvernements dirig\u00e9s par Matteo Renzi et Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, et l'ont confirm\u00e9 dans l'actuelle Commission de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[49]<\/a>. Un poste dans lequel M. Vidino est en mesure d'influencer les d\u00e9cisions politiques en mati\u00e8re diplomatique et militaire, mais aussi de contr\u00f4ler les r\u00e9sidents musulmans individuels en Italie. Un poste similaire lui a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 attribu\u00e9 au Royaume-Uni, mais il a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9voqu\u00e9 peu apr\u00e8s[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le probl\u00e8me est encore plus prononc\u00e9 en Autriche, o\u00f9 Vidino est membre du conseil consultatif de l'Observatoire de l'islam du gouvernement autrichien[51]<\/a>, au nom duquel il a r\u00e9dig\u00e9 un rapport visant \u00e0 obtenir l'ostracisme contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[52]<\/a>, et collabore activement avec les services secrets, pour lesquels il a aid\u00e9 \u00e0 produire une carte des associations et des lieux de culte musulmans dans le pays[53]<\/a>. Ses \u00e9crits contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont donn\u00e9 lieu \u00e0 une op\u00e9ration de police en novembre 2020, dont l'objectif \u00e9tait de d\u00e9sarmer ce que Vidino consid\u00e8re comme de dangereuses cellules terroristes[54]<\/a>, et qui n'a donn\u00e9 aucun r\u00e9sultat : malgr\u00e9 les efforts de centaines de policiers et la brutalit\u00e9 utilis\u00e9e, tous les accus\u00e9s se sont r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9s innocents[55]<\/a>. Un de ces cas typiques o\u00f9, comme le dit le dicton, la plume des \u00e9crivains tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e des soldats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tout cela devrait faire r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir les politiciens europ\u00e9ens : le scandale des pots-de-vin \u00e0 Bruxelles ne montre pas seulement la faiblesse du syst\u00e8me politique de l'Union, mais il met \u00e9galement en \u00e9vidence la mani\u00e8re tr\u00e8s dangereuse dont des pays \"dangereux\" comme les \u00c9mirats arabes unis et l'Arabie saoudite peuvent provoquer des actes de violence polici\u00e8re ou d'injustice criminelle dans certains \u00c9tats, \u00e0 commencer par l'Italie, la Su\u00e8de et l'Autriche - des nations dans lesquelles l'EFD et Vidino ont non seulement d'excellents contacts, mais occupent \u00e9galement des postes op\u00e9rationnels dans les ganglions les plus sensibles de l'administration publique. Personnellement, cela me conforte dans mon opinion : l'UE n'a pas d'alli\u00e9s - ni la Russie, ni la Chine, ni les pays arabes, ni m\u00eame (et presque personne ne le sait) les \u00c9tats-Unis d'Am\u00e9rique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

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His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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N\u00e9 \u00e0 Milan en 1977, Vidino a termin\u00e9 ses \u00e9tudes dans sa ville natale et a finalement obtenu l'une des sp\u00e9cialisations les plus exclusives au monde : celle de la Fletcher School de l'universit\u00e9 Tufts \u00e0 Medford (Massachussetts) [6]<\/a>, qui accueille chaque ann\u00e9e 230 \u00e9tudiants d'excellence mondiale et qui pr\u00e9pare depuis 90 ans des diplomates, des militaires et des lobbyistes pro-am\u00e9ricains travaillant au Moyen-Orient[7]<\/a>. Une \u00e9cole qui enseigne tous les maux possibles de la Russie de Poutine[8]<\/a> et la corruption dans le sport, en liant (\u00e0 juste titre, je pense) l'esprit de l'organisation des Jeux olympiques de Berlin de 1936 avec tant d'\u00e9v\u00e9nements sportifs de classe mondiale (\u00e0 commencer par la Coupe du monde en Argentine en 1978)[9]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00c0 la fin de ses \u00e9tudes, apr\u00e8s avoir \u00e9galement effectu\u00e9 une p\u00e9riode de formation dans le plus important lobby de l'industrie militaire am\u00e9ricaine (l'\u00e9cole de la RAND Corporation \u00e0 Arlington, en Virginie, au Pentagone[10]<\/a>), Vidino a choisi d'entrer \u00e0 la EFD (Fondation europ\u00e9enne pour la d\u00e9mocratie[11]<\/a>) pour y d\u00e9fendre les int\u00e9r\u00eats nationaux am\u00e9ricains : une organisation bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Bruxelles, active depuis 2005, qui finance la propagande (au sein du Parlement europ\u00e9en[12]<\/a>) des th\u00e8ses n\u00e9oconservatrices am\u00e9ricaines, selon lesquelles il existe de \"bons\" musulmans (Arabie, \u00c9gypte et \u00c9mirats) et de \"mauvais\" musulmans (les Fr\u00e8res musulmans et une liste d'organisations pacifistes li\u00e9es aux mouvements d\u00e9mocratiques dits du printemps arabe, actifs principalement en Angleterre, en Autriche et en Su\u00e8de) - qui, selon l'EFD, sont li\u00e9s au terrorisme fondamentaliste. Une th\u00e8se d\u00e9mentie par les faits, mais fonctionnelle \u00e0 l'alliance entre Isra\u00ebl, l'Arabie Saoudite et les Emirats contre tous les adversaires des monarchies du monde arabe[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une vid\u00e9oconf\u00e9rence de Jonathan Schanzer, l'un des principaux collaborateurs du pr\u00e9sident isra\u00e9lien Netanyahu, leader du FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'EFD est \u00e9galement financ\u00e9, depuis 2011, par des fonds provenant du budget de l'UE (environ 160 000 euros de contributions par an) et du gouvernement am\u00e9ricain (environ un demi-million de dollars) [15]<\/a>, et est dirig\u00e9 par Roberta Bonazzi, qui est \u00e9galement l'un des fondateurs de l'organisation[16]<\/a>. Mme Bonazzi, dont on sait qu'elle est \u00e0 la solde de plusieurs organisations d'extr\u00eame droite qui r\u00e9mun\u00e8rent l'EFD ou l'une de ses soci\u00e9t\u00e9s de conseil priv\u00e9es, comme Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, est c\u00e9l\u00e8bre pour son combat m\u00e9diatique contre le Hezbollah et sa tentative de lier cette organisation terroriste au mouvement de lib\u00e9ration de la Palestine et \u00e0 tous les jeunes musulmans qui luttent pour la d\u00e9mocratie dans le monde arabe[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'activit\u00e9 principale de M. Bonazzi consiste \u00e0 diriger la propagande politique pro-arabe et pro-am\u00e9ricaine dans plusieurs pays europ\u00e9ens, en premier lieu l'Arm\u00e9nie et l'Azerba\u00efdjan[19]<\/a>. Selon Bonazzi, derri\u00e8re ceux qui r\u00e9clament la d\u00e9mocratie, il n'y a pas le r\u00eave d'une g\u00e9n\u00e9ration d'Arabes qui veulent la fin du chauvinisme islamique radical, mais pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment son contraire : la th\u00e9ocratie iranienne, qui combat les monarchies du Golfe, les consid\u00e9rant (comme les Am\u00e9ricains l'aiment) comme modernes, libertaires et progressistes. En ce sens, Bonazzi travaille \u00e9troitement avec l'ambassadeur des \u00c9mirats \u00e0 Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, l'un des principaux collaborateurs de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, l'homme cl\u00e9 du pouvoir saoudien et \u00e9mirati dans le monde[22]<\/a>, marchand d'armes[23]<\/a> et ami et conseiller influent de Donald Trump sur les questions du Moyen-Orient[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En outre, l'EFD est \u00e9troitement li\u00e9 (sur le plan politique et organisationnel) \u00e0 la FDD (Fondation pour la d\u00e9fense des d\u00e9mocraties[25]<\/a>), qui, aux \u00c9tats-Unis, s'efforce d'obtenir des fonds pour l'EFD[26]<\/a>. Le FDD est l'une des organisations les plus radicales en faveur d'Isra\u00ebl et contre les pays arabes qui n'ont pas d'accord avec Tel Aviv, en premier lieu l'Iran[27]<\/a>. L'objectif du FDD est de pousser Washington, sur la base d'affirmations non fond\u00e9es (et souvent ouvertement fausses), \u00e0 mener des op\u00e9rations militaires en Syrie, en Iran, au Liban et dans d'autres pays du Moyen-Orient[28]<\/a>. Une th\u00e8se favorite des dirigeants du FDD consiste \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein et Oussama Ben Laden comme les dirigeants de la m\u00eame organisation terroriste responsable de l'attaque des tours jumelles \u00e0 New York le 11 septembre 2001 : le mouvement pour la lib\u00e9ration de la Palestine !!![29]<\/a>  Comme il est \u00e9vident, les dirigeants du FDD (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz et Jonathan Schanzer) sont des partisans ouverts de Donald Trump et de sa ligne sur les questions du Moyen-Orient[30]<\/a>. En 2009 d\u00e9j\u00e0, le FDD a vers\u00e9 pr\u00e8s d'un demi-million de dollars \u00e0 l'EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'inspiration de Breivik<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Le maniaque norv\u00e9gien Anders Behring Breivik se r\u00e9f\u00e8re \u00e0 Hitler pour expliquer le massacre qu'il a perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 en 2012, mais cite aussi les textes de Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entre-temps, Vidino est devenu un orateur politique populaire. Son ami Al Otaiba l'a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 au ministre des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res des EAU Abdullah Bin Zayed en 2017, apr\u00e8s que Vidino ait beaucoup travaill\u00e9 avec Quiller Consultants, le cabinet de lobbying bas\u00e9 \u00e0 Londres qui place des articles pro-Abu Dhabi dans la presse britannique[33]<\/a>. Dans le magazine trimestriel Middle East Quarterly, Vidino a affirm\u00e9 que \"l'Europe est devenue un incubateur de la pens\u00e9e et du d\u00e9veloppement politique islamistes\" : selon lui, les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont construit un \"vaste r\u00e9seau bien organis\u00e9 de mosqu\u00e9es, d'organisations caritatives et d'organisations islamiques\", dont le but serait d'\u00e9tendre le radicalisme islamique \u00e0 l'ensemble de l'Occident[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ces th\u00e8ses ne sont pas surprenantes. Son travail de lobbyiste \u00e0 l'EFD a conduit Vidino \u00e0 la prochaine \u00e9tape de sa carri\u00e8re : celle d'associ\u00e9 de TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, une agence d'\u00c9tat \u00e9miratie aux objectifs ambitieux : (a) analyser les menaces militaires, m\u00e9diatiques et cybern\u00e9tiques que repr\u00e9sentent les ennemis des monarchies du golfe Persique et impliquer les \u00c9tats-Unis dans les mesures visant \u00e0 r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 ces menaces ; b) d\u00e9signer et r\u00e9pertorier les adversaires des monarchies du golfe (d\u00e9finis tout court comme des \"terroristes\"), exercer des pressions diplomatiques pour qu'ils soient poursuivis, publier ce qu'il est possible de publier pour les discr\u00e9diter ; c) identifier, dans chaque pays, des alli\u00e9s possibles et les contacter ; d) identifier les personnes qui ont des int\u00e9r\u00eats dans les monarchies du golfe Persique et les contacter. d) pr\u00e9parer les \u00c9mirats \u00e0 un conflit militaire, en analysant ses co\u00fbts et ses avantages, et \u00e9valuer les \u00e9tapes n\u00e9cessaires pour s'assurer une place \u00e0 la table o\u00f9 sont distribu\u00e9s les lucratifs contrats de reconstruction ; e) financer des projets d'intelligence artificielle et de cybern\u00e9tique ayant des applications militaires utiles ; f) an\u00e9antir les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ; g) identifier des projets d'investissement \u00e9conomique et infrastructurel dans des pays pr\u00eats \u00e0 recevoir le message de l'islam tel qu'il est pratiqu\u00e9 dans le golfe Persique[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financ\u00e9 par le gotha militaire et p\u00e9trolier du Golfe Persique[37]<\/a>, est dirig\u00e9 par Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, qui a travaill\u00e9 pendant des ann\u00e9es comme conseiller acad\u00e9mique pour l'ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, fond\u00e9 en 1994 par Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan dans le but de justifier le r\u00e9armement massif des \u00c9mirats et aujourd'hui dirig\u00e9 par le chef des lobbyistes \u00e9miratis en Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi) [38]<\/a>. L'ECSSR travaille pour la Tawazun Holding de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. En ao\u00fbt 2017, Tawazun avait vers\u00e9 20 millions de dollars \u00e0 l'ECSSR, et l'ECSSR les a vers\u00e9s \u00e0 l'Institut du Moyen-Orient \u00e0 Washington : une association d'anciens militaires am\u00e9ricains, qui a \u00e0 son tour vers\u00e9 cette somme \u00e0 divers g\u00e9n\u00e9raux et politiciens pour donner un coup de fouet aux contrats militaires entre les \u00c9tats-Unis et les EAU[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire simple : TRENDS et ECSSR sont deux v\u00e9hicules utilis\u00e9s pour corrompre les politiciens et les militaires occidentaux, et Vidino s'emploie \u00e0 en sugg\u00e9rer de nouveaux[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, en tout cas, a \u00e9t\u00e9 impliqu\u00e9 dans plusieurs scandales de trafic d'armes[41]<\/a> et dans l'achat de logiciels espions particuli\u00e8rement pointus, de Pegasus \u00e0 DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. La diligence avec laquelle Vidino et ses coll\u00e8gues (issus d'associations li\u00e9es aux \u00c9mirats arabes unis) op\u00e8rent est telle que m\u00eame dans le golfe Persique, des voix se sont \u00e9lev\u00e9es pour demander la fin des mensonges, avant que ces th\u00e8ses, avanc\u00e9es par Vidino, ne deviennent l'arme d'un quelconque imprudent[43]<\/a>. Trop tard : les th\u00e8ses du lobbyiste milanais ont \u00e9t\u00e9 reprises par Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, le fou qui, en 2012, a tu\u00e9 77 personnes, dont 69 participants \u00e0 un camp d'\u00e9t\u00e9 de la Ligue de la jeunesse ouvri\u00e8re[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La STR-12, l'une des armes les plus avanc\u00e9es sur le plan technologique, a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e en 2012 \u00e0 Abu Dhabi gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une collaboration entre TRENDS Research et Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bien s\u00fbr, Vidino n'est pas responsable du massacre perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 par un psychopathe. Mais cela devrait \u00e9galement inciter \u00e0 la prudence dans l'utilisation des conseils du lobbyiste milanais. Le contraire est vrai : en Italie, par exemple, les services secrets l'ont port\u00e9 au poste de coordinateur de la Commission d'\u00e9tude sur la radicalisation et l'extr\u00e9misme djihadiste[47]<\/a>, qui existait pendant les ann\u00e9es des gouvernements dirig\u00e9s par Matteo Renzi et Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, et l'ont confirm\u00e9 dans l'actuelle Commission de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[49]<\/a>. Un poste dans lequel M. Vidino est en mesure d'influencer les d\u00e9cisions politiques en mati\u00e8re diplomatique et militaire, mais aussi de contr\u00f4ler les r\u00e9sidents musulmans individuels en Italie. Un poste similaire lui a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 attribu\u00e9 au Royaume-Uni, mais il a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9voqu\u00e9 peu apr\u00e8s[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le probl\u00e8me est encore plus prononc\u00e9 en Autriche, o\u00f9 Vidino est membre du conseil consultatif de l'Observatoire de l'islam du gouvernement autrichien[51]<\/a>, au nom duquel il a r\u00e9dig\u00e9 un rapport visant \u00e0 obtenir l'ostracisme contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[52]<\/a>, et collabore activement avec les services secrets, pour lesquels il a aid\u00e9 \u00e0 produire une carte des associations et des lieux de culte musulmans dans le pays[53]<\/a>. Ses \u00e9crits contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont donn\u00e9 lieu \u00e0 une op\u00e9ration de police en novembre 2020, dont l'objectif \u00e9tait de d\u00e9sarmer ce que Vidino consid\u00e8re comme de dangereuses cellules terroristes[54]<\/a>, et qui n'a donn\u00e9 aucun r\u00e9sultat : malgr\u00e9 les efforts de centaines de policiers et la brutalit\u00e9 utilis\u00e9e, tous les accus\u00e9s se sont r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9s innocents[55]<\/a>. Un de ces cas typiques o\u00f9, comme le dit le dicton, la plume des \u00e9crivains tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e des soldats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tout cela devrait faire r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir les politiciens europ\u00e9ens : le scandale des pots-de-vin \u00e0 Bruxelles ne montre pas seulement la faiblesse du syst\u00e8me politique de l'Union, mais il met \u00e9galement en \u00e9vidence la mani\u00e8re tr\u00e8s dangereuse dont des pays \"dangereux\" comme les \u00c9mirats arabes unis et l'Arabie saoudite peuvent provoquer des actes de violence polici\u00e8re ou d'injustice criminelle dans certains \u00c9tats, \u00e0 commencer par l'Italie, la Su\u00e8de et l'Autriche - des nations dans lesquelles l'EFD et Vidino ont non seulement d'excellents contacts, mais occupent \u00e9galement des postes op\u00e9rationnels dans les ganglions les plus sensibles de l'administration publique. Personnellement, cela me conforte dans mon opinion : l'UE n'a pas d'alli\u00e9s - ni la Russie, ni la Chine, ni les pays arabes, ni m\u00eame (et presque personne ne le sait) les \u00c9tats-Unis d'Am\u00e9rique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

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His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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L'une des principales diff\u00e9rences entre ces nouveaux gourous et ceux (comme Hermann Schmitz) du nazisme est que l'ennemi n'est plus le juda\u00efsme, mais une fraction du monde arabe - celle repr\u00e9sent\u00e9e par les Fr\u00e8res musulmans, la Palestine, le printemps arabe, l'Iran et le Qatar : un chaudron de choses qui n'ont rien en commun les unes avec les autres[4]<\/a>. Un chaudron dans lequel Isra\u00ebl et le sionisme sont parfaitement \u00e0 l'aise, puisqu'ils font partie de l'\u00e9quipe men\u00e9e par les n\u00e9o-conservateurs de Donald Trump (qui ne repr\u00e9sentent qu'une fraction de l'extr\u00eame droite am\u00e9ricaine), le prince saoudien Bin Salman et le cheikh \u00e9mirati Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 \u00e0 Milan en 1977, Vidino a termin\u00e9 ses \u00e9tudes dans sa ville natale et a finalement obtenu l'une des sp\u00e9cialisations les plus exclusives au monde : celle de la Fletcher School de l'universit\u00e9 Tufts \u00e0 Medford (Massachussetts) [6]<\/a>, qui accueille chaque ann\u00e9e 230 \u00e9tudiants d'excellence mondiale et qui pr\u00e9pare depuis 90 ans des diplomates, des militaires et des lobbyistes pro-am\u00e9ricains travaillant au Moyen-Orient[7]<\/a>. Une \u00e9cole qui enseigne tous les maux possibles de la Russie de Poutine[8]<\/a> et la corruption dans le sport, en liant (\u00e0 juste titre, je pense) l'esprit de l'organisation des Jeux olympiques de Berlin de 1936 avec tant d'\u00e9v\u00e9nements sportifs de classe mondiale (\u00e0 commencer par la Coupe du monde en Argentine en 1978)[9]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00c0 la fin de ses \u00e9tudes, apr\u00e8s avoir \u00e9galement effectu\u00e9 une p\u00e9riode de formation dans le plus important lobby de l'industrie militaire am\u00e9ricaine (l'\u00e9cole de la RAND Corporation \u00e0 Arlington, en Virginie, au Pentagone[10]<\/a>), Vidino a choisi d'entrer \u00e0 la EFD (Fondation europ\u00e9enne pour la d\u00e9mocratie[11]<\/a>) pour y d\u00e9fendre les int\u00e9r\u00eats nationaux am\u00e9ricains : une organisation bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Bruxelles, active depuis 2005, qui finance la propagande (au sein du Parlement europ\u00e9en[12]<\/a>) des th\u00e8ses n\u00e9oconservatrices am\u00e9ricaines, selon lesquelles il existe de \"bons\" musulmans (Arabie, \u00c9gypte et \u00c9mirats) et de \"mauvais\" musulmans (les Fr\u00e8res musulmans et une liste d'organisations pacifistes li\u00e9es aux mouvements d\u00e9mocratiques dits du printemps arabe, actifs principalement en Angleterre, en Autriche et en Su\u00e8de) - qui, selon l'EFD, sont li\u00e9s au terrorisme fondamentaliste. Une th\u00e8se d\u00e9mentie par les faits, mais fonctionnelle \u00e0 l'alliance entre Isra\u00ebl, l'Arabie Saoudite et les Emirats contre tous les adversaires des monarchies du monde arabe[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une vid\u00e9oconf\u00e9rence de Jonathan Schanzer, l'un des principaux collaborateurs du pr\u00e9sident isra\u00e9lien Netanyahu, leader du FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'EFD est \u00e9galement financ\u00e9, depuis 2011, par des fonds provenant du budget de l'UE (environ 160 000 euros de contributions par an) et du gouvernement am\u00e9ricain (environ un demi-million de dollars) [15]<\/a>, et est dirig\u00e9 par Roberta Bonazzi, qui est \u00e9galement l'un des fondateurs de l'organisation[16]<\/a>. Mme Bonazzi, dont on sait qu'elle est \u00e0 la solde de plusieurs organisations d'extr\u00eame droite qui r\u00e9mun\u00e8rent l'EFD ou l'une de ses soci\u00e9t\u00e9s de conseil priv\u00e9es, comme Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, est c\u00e9l\u00e8bre pour son combat m\u00e9diatique contre le Hezbollah et sa tentative de lier cette organisation terroriste au mouvement de lib\u00e9ration de la Palestine et \u00e0 tous les jeunes musulmans qui luttent pour la d\u00e9mocratie dans le monde arabe[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'activit\u00e9 principale de M. Bonazzi consiste \u00e0 diriger la propagande politique pro-arabe et pro-am\u00e9ricaine dans plusieurs pays europ\u00e9ens, en premier lieu l'Arm\u00e9nie et l'Azerba\u00efdjan[19]<\/a>. Selon Bonazzi, derri\u00e8re ceux qui r\u00e9clament la d\u00e9mocratie, il n'y a pas le r\u00eave d'une g\u00e9n\u00e9ration d'Arabes qui veulent la fin du chauvinisme islamique radical, mais pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment son contraire : la th\u00e9ocratie iranienne, qui combat les monarchies du Golfe, les consid\u00e9rant (comme les Am\u00e9ricains l'aiment) comme modernes, libertaires et progressistes. En ce sens, Bonazzi travaille \u00e9troitement avec l'ambassadeur des \u00c9mirats \u00e0 Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, l'un des principaux collaborateurs de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, l'homme cl\u00e9 du pouvoir saoudien et \u00e9mirati dans le monde[22]<\/a>, marchand d'armes[23]<\/a> et ami et conseiller influent de Donald Trump sur les questions du Moyen-Orient[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En outre, l'EFD est \u00e9troitement li\u00e9 (sur le plan politique et organisationnel) \u00e0 la FDD (Fondation pour la d\u00e9fense des d\u00e9mocraties[25]<\/a>), qui, aux \u00c9tats-Unis, s'efforce d'obtenir des fonds pour l'EFD[26]<\/a>. Le FDD est l'une des organisations les plus radicales en faveur d'Isra\u00ebl et contre les pays arabes qui n'ont pas d'accord avec Tel Aviv, en premier lieu l'Iran[27]<\/a>. L'objectif du FDD est de pousser Washington, sur la base d'affirmations non fond\u00e9es (et souvent ouvertement fausses), \u00e0 mener des op\u00e9rations militaires en Syrie, en Iran, au Liban et dans d'autres pays du Moyen-Orient[28]<\/a>. Une th\u00e8se favorite des dirigeants du FDD consiste \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein et Oussama Ben Laden comme les dirigeants de la m\u00eame organisation terroriste responsable de l'attaque des tours jumelles \u00e0 New York le 11 septembre 2001 : le mouvement pour la lib\u00e9ration de la Palestine !!![29]<\/a>  Comme il est \u00e9vident, les dirigeants du FDD (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz et Jonathan Schanzer) sont des partisans ouverts de Donald Trump et de sa ligne sur les questions du Moyen-Orient[30]<\/a>. En 2009 d\u00e9j\u00e0, le FDD a vers\u00e9 pr\u00e8s d'un demi-million de dollars \u00e0 l'EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'inspiration de Breivik<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Le maniaque norv\u00e9gien Anders Behring Breivik se r\u00e9f\u00e8re \u00e0 Hitler pour expliquer le massacre qu'il a perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 en 2012, mais cite aussi les textes de Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entre-temps, Vidino est devenu un orateur politique populaire. Son ami Al Otaiba l'a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 au ministre des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res des EAU Abdullah Bin Zayed en 2017, apr\u00e8s que Vidino ait beaucoup travaill\u00e9 avec Quiller Consultants, le cabinet de lobbying bas\u00e9 \u00e0 Londres qui place des articles pro-Abu Dhabi dans la presse britannique[33]<\/a>. Dans le magazine trimestriel Middle East Quarterly, Vidino a affirm\u00e9 que \"l'Europe est devenue un incubateur de la pens\u00e9e et du d\u00e9veloppement politique islamistes\" : selon lui, les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont construit un \"vaste r\u00e9seau bien organis\u00e9 de mosqu\u00e9es, d'organisations caritatives et d'organisations islamiques\", dont le but serait d'\u00e9tendre le radicalisme islamique \u00e0 l'ensemble de l'Occident[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ces th\u00e8ses ne sont pas surprenantes. Son travail de lobbyiste \u00e0 l'EFD a conduit Vidino \u00e0 la prochaine \u00e9tape de sa carri\u00e8re : celle d'associ\u00e9 de TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, une agence d'\u00c9tat \u00e9miratie aux objectifs ambitieux : (a) analyser les menaces militaires, m\u00e9diatiques et cybern\u00e9tiques que repr\u00e9sentent les ennemis des monarchies du golfe Persique et impliquer les \u00c9tats-Unis dans les mesures visant \u00e0 r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 ces menaces ; b) d\u00e9signer et r\u00e9pertorier les adversaires des monarchies du golfe (d\u00e9finis tout court comme des \"terroristes\"), exercer des pressions diplomatiques pour qu'ils soient poursuivis, publier ce qu'il est possible de publier pour les discr\u00e9diter ; c) identifier, dans chaque pays, des alli\u00e9s possibles et les contacter ; d) identifier les personnes qui ont des int\u00e9r\u00eats dans les monarchies du golfe Persique et les contacter. d) pr\u00e9parer les \u00c9mirats \u00e0 un conflit militaire, en analysant ses co\u00fbts et ses avantages, et \u00e9valuer les \u00e9tapes n\u00e9cessaires pour s'assurer une place \u00e0 la table o\u00f9 sont distribu\u00e9s les lucratifs contrats de reconstruction ; e) financer des projets d'intelligence artificielle et de cybern\u00e9tique ayant des applications militaires utiles ; f) an\u00e9antir les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ; g) identifier des projets d'investissement \u00e9conomique et infrastructurel dans des pays pr\u00eats \u00e0 recevoir le message de l'islam tel qu'il est pratiqu\u00e9 dans le golfe Persique[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financ\u00e9 par le gotha militaire et p\u00e9trolier du Golfe Persique[37]<\/a>, est dirig\u00e9 par Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, qui a travaill\u00e9 pendant des ann\u00e9es comme conseiller acad\u00e9mique pour l'ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, fond\u00e9 en 1994 par Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan dans le but de justifier le r\u00e9armement massif des \u00c9mirats et aujourd'hui dirig\u00e9 par le chef des lobbyistes \u00e9miratis en Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi) [38]<\/a>. L'ECSSR travaille pour la Tawazun Holding de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. En ao\u00fbt 2017, Tawazun avait vers\u00e9 20 millions de dollars \u00e0 l'ECSSR, et l'ECSSR les a vers\u00e9s \u00e0 l'Institut du Moyen-Orient \u00e0 Washington : une association d'anciens militaires am\u00e9ricains, qui a \u00e0 son tour vers\u00e9 cette somme \u00e0 divers g\u00e9n\u00e9raux et politiciens pour donner un coup de fouet aux contrats militaires entre les \u00c9tats-Unis et les EAU[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire simple : TRENDS et ECSSR sont deux v\u00e9hicules utilis\u00e9s pour corrompre les politiciens et les militaires occidentaux, et Vidino s'emploie \u00e0 en sugg\u00e9rer de nouveaux[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, en tout cas, a \u00e9t\u00e9 impliqu\u00e9 dans plusieurs scandales de trafic d'armes[41]<\/a> et dans l'achat de logiciels espions particuli\u00e8rement pointus, de Pegasus \u00e0 DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. La diligence avec laquelle Vidino et ses coll\u00e8gues (issus d'associations li\u00e9es aux \u00c9mirats arabes unis) op\u00e8rent est telle que m\u00eame dans le golfe Persique, des voix se sont \u00e9lev\u00e9es pour demander la fin des mensonges, avant que ces th\u00e8ses, avanc\u00e9es par Vidino, ne deviennent l'arme d'un quelconque imprudent[43]<\/a>. Trop tard : les th\u00e8ses du lobbyiste milanais ont \u00e9t\u00e9 reprises par Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, le fou qui, en 2012, a tu\u00e9 77 personnes, dont 69 participants \u00e0 un camp d'\u00e9t\u00e9 de la Ligue de la jeunesse ouvri\u00e8re[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La STR-12, l'une des armes les plus avanc\u00e9es sur le plan technologique, a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e en 2012 \u00e0 Abu Dhabi gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une collaboration entre TRENDS Research et Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bien s\u00fbr, Vidino n'est pas responsable du massacre perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 par un psychopathe. Mais cela devrait \u00e9galement inciter \u00e0 la prudence dans l'utilisation des conseils du lobbyiste milanais. Le contraire est vrai : en Italie, par exemple, les services secrets l'ont port\u00e9 au poste de coordinateur de la Commission d'\u00e9tude sur la radicalisation et l'extr\u00e9misme djihadiste[47]<\/a>, qui existait pendant les ann\u00e9es des gouvernements dirig\u00e9s par Matteo Renzi et Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, et l'ont confirm\u00e9 dans l'actuelle Commission de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[49]<\/a>. Un poste dans lequel M. Vidino est en mesure d'influencer les d\u00e9cisions politiques en mati\u00e8re diplomatique et militaire, mais aussi de contr\u00f4ler les r\u00e9sidents musulmans individuels en Italie. Un poste similaire lui a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 attribu\u00e9 au Royaume-Uni, mais il a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9voqu\u00e9 peu apr\u00e8s[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le probl\u00e8me est encore plus prononc\u00e9 en Autriche, o\u00f9 Vidino est membre du conseil consultatif de l'Observatoire de l'islam du gouvernement autrichien[51]<\/a>, au nom duquel il a r\u00e9dig\u00e9 un rapport visant \u00e0 obtenir l'ostracisme contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[52]<\/a>, et collabore activement avec les services secrets, pour lesquels il a aid\u00e9 \u00e0 produire une carte des associations et des lieux de culte musulmans dans le pays[53]<\/a>. Ses \u00e9crits contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont donn\u00e9 lieu \u00e0 une op\u00e9ration de police en novembre 2020, dont l'objectif \u00e9tait de d\u00e9sarmer ce que Vidino consid\u00e8re comme de dangereuses cellules terroristes[54]<\/a>, et qui n'a donn\u00e9 aucun r\u00e9sultat : malgr\u00e9 les efforts de centaines de policiers et la brutalit\u00e9 utilis\u00e9e, tous les accus\u00e9s se sont r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9s innocents[55]<\/a>. Un de ces cas typiques o\u00f9, comme le dit le dicton, la plume des \u00e9crivains tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e des soldats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tout cela devrait faire r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir les politiciens europ\u00e9ens : le scandale des pots-de-vin \u00e0 Bruxelles ne montre pas seulement la faiblesse du syst\u00e8me politique de l'Union, mais il met \u00e9galement en \u00e9vidence la mani\u00e8re tr\u00e8s dangereuse dont des pays \"dangereux\" comme les \u00c9mirats arabes unis et l'Arabie saoudite peuvent provoquer des actes de violence polici\u00e8re ou d'injustice criminelle dans certains \u00c9tats, \u00e0 commencer par l'Italie, la Su\u00e8de et l'Autriche - des nations dans lesquelles l'EFD et Vidino ont non seulement d'excellents contacts, mais occupent \u00e9galement des postes op\u00e9rationnels dans les ganglions les plus sensibles de l'administration publique. Personnellement, cela me conforte dans mon opinion : l'UE n'a pas d'alli\u00e9s - ni la Russie, ni la Chine, ni les pays arabes, ni m\u00eame (et presque personne ne le sait) les \u00c9tats-Unis d'Am\u00e9rique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Lorenzo Vidino est l'un des plus importants d'entre eux : un expert des affaires du Moyen-Orient, qui se bat contre Elon Musk, contre les crypto-monnaies, contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[2]<\/a>. Ce sont des choses qui n'ont rien \u00e0 voir entre elles, mais l'une des caract\u00e9ristiques de cette nouvelle extr\u00eame droite est d'\u00eatre, comme les th\u00e9ories \u00e9nonc\u00e9es par Adolf Hitler, totalisante[3]<\/a>, et de pr\u00e9tendre expliquer le monde entier \u00e0 partir d'un seul postulat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'une des principales diff\u00e9rences entre ces nouveaux gourous et ceux (comme Hermann Schmitz) du nazisme est que l'ennemi n'est plus le juda\u00efsme, mais une fraction du monde arabe - celle repr\u00e9sent\u00e9e par les Fr\u00e8res musulmans, la Palestine, le printemps arabe, l'Iran et le Qatar : un chaudron de choses qui n'ont rien en commun les unes avec les autres[4]<\/a>. Un chaudron dans lequel Isra\u00ebl et le sionisme sont parfaitement \u00e0 l'aise, puisqu'ils font partie de l'\u00e9quipe men\u00e9e par les n\u00e9o-conservateurs de Donald Trump (qui ne repr\u00e9sentent qu'une fraction de l'extr\u00eame droite am\u00e9ricaine), le prince saoudien Bin Salman et le cheikh \u00e9mirati Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 \u00e0 Milan en 1977, Vidino a termin\u00e9 ses \u00e9tudes dans sa ville natale et a finalement obtenu l'une des sp\u00e9cialisations les plus exclusives au monde : celle de la Fletcher School de l'universit\u00e9 Tufts \u00e0 Medford (Massachussetts) [6]<\/a>, qui accueille chaque ann\u00e9e 230 \u00e9tudiants d'excellence mondiale et qui pr\u00e9pare depuis 90 ans des diplomates, des militaires et des lobbyistes pro-am\u00e9ricains travaillant au Moyen-Orient[7]<\/a>. Une \u00e9cole qui enseigne tous les maux possibles de la Russie de Poutine[8]<\/a> et la corruption dans le sport, en liant (\u00e0 juste titre, je pense) l'esprit de l'organisation des Jeux olympiques de Berlin de 1936 avec tant d'\u00e9v\u00e9nements sportifs de classe mondiale (\u00e0 commencer par la Coupe du monde en Argentine en 1978)[9]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00c0 la fin de ses \u00e9tudes, apr\u00e8s avoir \u00e9galement effectu\u00e9 une p\u00e9riode de formation dans le plus important lobby de l'industrie militaire am\u00e9ricaine (l'\u00e9cole de la RAND Corporation \u00e0 Arlington, en Virginie, au Pentagone[10]<\/a>), Vidino a choisi d'entrer \u00e0 la EFD (Fondation europ\u00e9enne pour la d\u00e9mocratie[11]<\/a>) pour y d\u00e9fendre les int\u00e9r\u00eats nationaux am\u00e9ricains : une organisation bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Bruxelles, active depuis 2005, qui finance la propagande (au sein du Parlement europ\u00e9en[12]<\/a>) des th\u00e8ses n\u00e9oconservatrices am\u00e9ricaines, selon lesquelles il existe de \"bons\" musulmans (Arabie, \u00c9gypte et \u00c9mirats) et de \"mauvais\" musulmans (les Fr\u00e8res musulmans et une liste d'organisations pacifistes li\u00e9es aux mouvements d\u00e9mocratiques dits du printemps arabe, actifs principalement en Angleterre, en Autriche et en Su\u00e8de) - qui, selon l'EFD, sont li\u00e9s au terrorisme fondamentaliste. Une th\u00e8se d\u00e9mentie par les faits, mais fonctionnelle \u00e0 l'alliance entre Isra\u00ebl, l'Arabie Saoudite et les Emirats contre tous les adversaires des monarchies du monde arabe[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une vid\u00e9oconf\u00e9rence de Jonathan Schanzer, l'un des principaux collaborateurs du pr\u00e9sident isra\u00e9lien Netanyahu, leader du FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'EFD est \u00e9galement financ\u00e9, depuis 2011, par des fonds provenant du budget de l'UE (environ 160 000 euros de contributions par an) et du gouvernement am\u00e9ricain (environ un demi-million de dollars) [15]<\/a>, et est dirig\u00e9 par Roberta Bonazzi, qui est \u00e9galement l'un des fondateurs de l'organisation[16]<\/a>. Mme Bonazzi, dont on sait qu'elle est \u00e0 la solde de plusieurs organisations d'extr\u00eame droite qui r\u00e9mun\u00e8rent l'EFD ou l'une de ses soci\u00e9t\u00e9s de conseil priv\u00e9es, comme Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, est c\u00e9l\u00e8bre pour son combat m\u00e9diatique contre le Hezbollah et sa tentative de lier cette organisation terroriste au mouvement de lib\u00e9ration de la Palestine et \u00e0 tous les jeunes musulmans qui luttent pour la d\u00e9mocratie dans le monde arabe[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'activit\u00e9 principale de M. Bonazzi consiste \u00e0 diriger la propagande politique pro-arabe et pro-am\u00e9ricaine dans plusieurs pays europ\u00e9ens, en premier lieu l'Arm\u00e9nie et l'Azerba\u00efdjan[19]<\/a>. Selon Bonazzi, derri\u00e8re ceux qui r\u00e9clament la d\u00e9mocratie, il n'y a pas le r\u00eave d'une g\u00e9n\u00e9ration d'Arabes qui veulent la fin du chauvinisme islamique radical, mais pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment son contraire : la th\u00e9ocratie iranienne, qui combat les monarchies du Golfe, les consid\u00e9rant (comme les Am\u00e9ricains l'aiment) comme modernes, libertaires et progressistes. En ce sens, Bonazzi travaille \u00e9troitement avec l'ambassadeur des \u00c9mirats \u00e0 Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, l'un des principaux collaborateurs de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, l'homme cl\u00e9 du pouvoir saoudien et \u00e9mirati dans le monde[22]<\/a>, marchand d'armes[23]<\/a> et ami et conseiller influent de Donald Trump sur les questions du Moyen-Orient[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En outre, l'EFD est \u00e9troitement li\u00e9 (sur le plan politique et organisationnel) \u00e0 la FDD (Fondation pour la d\u00e9fense des d\u00e9mocraties[25]<\/a>), qui, aux \u00c9tats-Unis, s'efforce d'obtenir des fonds pour l'EFD[26]<\/a>. Le FDD est l'une des organisations les plus radicales en faveur d'Isra\u00ebl et contre les pays arabes qui n'ont pas d'accord avec Tel Aviv, en premier lieu l'Iran[27]<\/a>. L'objectif du FDD est de pousser Washington, sur la base d'affirmations non fond\u00e9es (et souvent ouvertement fausses), \u00e0 mener des op\u00e9rations militaires en Syrie, en Iran, au Liban et dans d'autres pays du Moyen-Orient[28]<\/a>. Une th\u00e8se favorite des dirigeants du FDD consiste \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein et Oussama Ben Laden comme les dirigeants de la m\u00eame organisation terroriste responsable de l'attaque des tours jumelles \u00e0 New York le 11 septembre 2001 : le mouvement pour la lib\u00e9ration de la Palestine !!![29]<\/a>  Comme il est \u00e9vident, les dirigeants du FDD (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz et Jonathan Schanzer) sont des partisans ouverts de Donald Trump et de sa ligne sur les questions du Moyen-Orient[30]<\/a>. En 2009 d\u00e9j\u00e0, le FDD a vers\u00e9 pr\u00e8s d'un demi-million de dollars \u00e0 l'EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'inspiration de Breivik<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Le maniaque norv\u00e9gien Anders Behring Breivik se r\u00e9f\u00e8re \u00e0 Hitler pour expliquer le massacre qu'il a perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 en 2012, mais cite aussi les textes de Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entre-temps, Vidino est devenu un orateur politique populaire. Son ami Al Otaiba l'a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 au ministre des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res des EAU Abdullah Bin Zayed en 2017, apr\u00e8s que Vidino ait beaucoup travaill\u00e9 avec Quiller Consultants, le cabinet de lobbying bas\u00e9 \u00e0 Londres qui place des articles pro-Abu Dhabi dans la presse britannique[33]<\/a>. Dans le magazine trimestriel Middle East Quarterly, Vidino a affirm\u00e9 que \"l'Europe est devenue un incubateur de la pens\u00e9e et du d\u00e9veloppement politique islamistes\" : selon lui, les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont construit un \"vaste r\u00e9seau bien organis\u00e9 de mosqu\u00e9es, d'organisations caritatives et d'organisations islamiques\", dont le but serait d'\u00e9tendre le radicalisme islamique \u00e0 l'ensemble de l'Occident[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ces th\u00e8ses ne sont pas surprenantes. Son travail de lobbyiste \u00e0 l'EFD a conduit Vidino \u00e0 la prochaine \u00e9tape de sa carri\u00e8re : celle d'associ\u00e9 de TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, une agence d'\u00c9tat \u00e9miratie aux objectifs ambitieux : (a) analyser les menaces militaires, m\u00e9diatiques et cybern\u00e9tiques que repr\u00e9sentent les ennemis des monarchies du golfe Persique et impliquer les \u00c9tats-Unis dans les mesures visant \u00e0 r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 ces menaces ; b) d\u00e9signer et r\u00e9pertorier les adversaires des monarchies du golfe (d\u00e9finis tout court comme des \"terroristes\"), exercer des pressions diplomatiques pour qu'ils soient poursuivis, publier ce qu'il est possible de publier pour les discr\u00e9diter ; c) identifier, dans chaque pays, des alli\u00e9s possibles et les contacter ; d) identifier les personnes qui ont des int\u00e9r\u00eats dans les monarchies du golfe Persique et les contacter. d) pr\u00e9parer les \u00c9mirats \u00e0 un conflit militaire, en analysant ses co\u00fbts et ses avantages, et \u00e9valuer les \u00e9tapes n\u00e9cessaires pour s'assurer une place \u00e0 la table o\u00f9 sont distribu\u00e9s les lucratifs contrats de reconstruction ; e) financer des projets d'intelligence artificielle et de cybern\u00e9tique ayant des applications militaires utiles ; f) an\u00e9antir les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ; g) identifier des projets d'investissement \u00e9conomique et infrastructurel dans des pays pr\u00eats \u00e0 recevoir le message de l'islam tel qu'il est pratiqu\u00e9 dans le golfe Persique[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financ\u00e9 par le gotha militaire et p\u00e9trolier du Golfe Persique[37]<\/a>, est dirig\u00e9 par Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, qui a travaill\u00e9 pendant des ann\u00e9es comme conseiller acad\u00e9mique pour l'ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, fond\u00e9 en 1994 par Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan dans le but de justifier le r\u00e9armement massif des \u00c9mirats et aujourd'hui dirig\u00e9 par le chef des lobbyistes \u00e9miratis en Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi) [38]<\/a>. L'ECSSR travaille pour la Tawazun Holding de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. En ao\u00fbt 2017, Tawazun avait vers\u00e9 20 millions de dollars \u00e0 l'ECSSR, et l'ECSSR les a vers\u00e9s \u00e0 l'Institut du Moyen-Orient \u00e0 Washington : une association d'anciens militaires am\u00e9ricains, qui a \u00e0 son tour vers\u00e9 cette somme \u00e0 divers g\u00e9n\u00e9raux et politiciens pour donner un coup de fouet aux contrats militaires entre les \u00c9tats-Unis et les EAU[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire simple : TRENDS et ECSSR sont deux v\u00e9hicules utilis\u00e9s pour corrompre les politiciens et les militaires occidentaux, et Vidino s'emploie \u00e0 en sugg\u00e9rer de nouveaux[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, en tout cas, a \u00e9t\u00e9 impliqu\u00e9 dans plusieurs scandales de trafic d'armes[41]<\/a> et dans l'achat de logiciels espions particuli\u00e8rement pointus, de Pegasus \u00e0 DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. La diligence avec laquelle Vidino et ses coll\u00e8gues (issus d'associations li\u00e9es aux \u00c9mirats arabes unis) op\u00e8rent est telle que m\u00eame dans le golfe Persique, des voix se sont \u00e9lev\u00e9es pour demander la fin des mensonges, avant que ces th\u00e8ses, avanc\u00e9es par Vidino, ne deviennent l'arme d'un quelconque imprudent[43]<\/a>. Trop tard : les th\u00e8ses du lobbyiste milanais ont \u00e9t\u00e9 reprises par Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, le fou qui, en 2012, a tu\u00e9 77 personnes, dont 69 participants \u00e0 un camp d'\u00e9t\u00e9 de la Ligue de la jeunesse ouvri\u00e8re[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La STR-12, l'une des armes les plus avanc\u00e9es sur le plan technologique, a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e en 2012 \u00e0 Abu Dhabi gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une collaboration entre TRENDS Research et Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bien s\u00fbr, Vidino n'est pas responsable du massacre perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 par un psychopathe. Mais cela devrait \u00e9galement inciter \u00e0 la prudence dans l'utilisation des conseils du lobbyiste milanais. Le contraire est vrai : en Italie, par exemple, les services secrets l'ont port\u00e9 au poste de coordinateur de la Commission d'\u00e9tude sur la radicalisation et l'extr\u00e9misme djihadiste[47]<\/a>, qui existait pendant les ann\u00e9es des gouvernements dirig\u00e9s par Matteo Renzi et Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, et l'ont confirm\u00e9 dans l'actuelle Commission de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[49]<\/a>. Un poste dans lequel M. Vidino est en mesure d'influencer les d\u00e9cisions politiques en mati\u00e8re diplomatique et militaire, mais aussi de contr\u00f4ler les r\u00e9sidents musulmans individuels en Italie. Un poste similaire lui a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 attribu\u00e9 au Royaume-Uni, mais il a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9voqu\u00e9 peu apr\u00e8s[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le probl\u00e8me est encore plus prononc\u00e9 en Autriche, o\u00f9 Vidino est membre du conseil consultatif de l'Observatoire de l'islam du gouvernement autrichien[51]<\/a>, au nom duquel il a r\u00e9dig\u00e9 un rapport visant \u00e0 obtenir l'ostracisme contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[52]<\/a>, et collabore activement avec les services secrets, pour lesquels il a aid\u00e9 \u00e0 produire une carte des associations et des lieux de culte musulmans dans le pays[53]<\/a>. Ses \u00e9crits contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont donn\u00e9 lieu \u00e0 une op\u00e9ration de police en novembre 2020, dont l'objectif \u00e9tait de d\u00e9sarmer ce que Vidino consid\u00e8re comme de dangereuses cellules terroristes[54]<\/a>, et qui n'a donn\u00e9 aucun r\u00e9sultat : malgr\u00e9 les efforts de centaines de policiers et la brutalit\u00e9 utilis\u00e9e, tous les accus\u00e9s se sont r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9s innocents[55]<\/a>. Un de ces cas typiques o\u00f9, comme le dit le dicton, la plume des \u00e9crivains tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e des soldats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tout cela devrait faire r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir les politiciens europ\u00e9ens : le scandale des pots-de-vin \u00e0 Bruxelles ne montre pas seulement la faiblesse du syst\u00e8me politique de l'Union, mais il met \u00e9galement en \u00e9vidence la mani\u00e8re tr\u00e8s dangereuse dont des pays \"dangereux\" comme les \u00c9mirats arabes unis et l'Arabie saoudite peuvent provoquer des actes de violence polici\u00e8re ou d'injustice criminelle dans certains \u00c9tats, \u00e0 commencer par l'Italie, la Su\u00e8de et l'Autriche - des nations dans lesquelles l'EFD et Vidino ont non seulement d'excellents contacts, mais occupent \u00e9galement des postes op\u00e9rationnels dans les ganglions les plus sensibles de l'administration publique. Personnellement, cela me conforte dans mon opinion : l'UE n'a pas d'alli\u00e9s - ni la Russie, ni la Chine, ni les pays arabes, ni m\u00eame (et presque personne ne le sait) les \u00c9tats-Unis d'Am\u00e9rique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

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His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dans l'\u00e9closion de nouvelles organisations d'extr\u00eame droite, li\u00e9es au nationalisme, \u00e0 la religion, ou simplement \u00e0 une vision mystique et antid\u00e9mocratique de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9, les \u00c9tats-Unis continuent d'\u00eatre le pays leader : celui qui inspire, influence et oblige le reste du monde \u00e0 suivre ses modes, ses caprices, ses erreurs. Les figures les plus marquantes de cette tendance sont des milliardaires comme Elon Musk, Peter Thiel et Donald Trump, mais autour d'eux fleurissent des personnages, comme Steve Bannon, qui se situent entre les th\u00e9oriciens d'un nouveau m\u00e9di\u00e9visme technocratique et les \u00e9p\u00e9es avec lesquelles les milliardaires pr\u00e9cit\u00e9s, en guerre les uns contre les autres, s'affrontent dans les journaux, sur le web et \u00e0 la t\u00e9l\u00e9vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino est l'un des plus importants d'entre eux : un expert des affaires du Moyen-Orient, qui se bat contre Elon Musk, contre les crypto-monnaies, contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[2]<\/a>. Ce sont des choses qui n'ont rien \u00e0 voir entre elles, mais l'une des caract\u00e9ristiques de cette nouvelle extr\u00eame droite est d'\u00eatre, comme les th\u00e9ories \u00e9nonc\u00e9es par Adolf Hitler, totalisante[3]<\/a>, et de pr\u00e9tendre expliquer le monde entier \u00e0 partir d'un seul postulat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'une des principales diff\u00e9rences entre ces nouveaux gourous et ceux (comme Hermann Schmitz) du nazisme est que l'ennemi n'est plus le juda\u00efsme, mais une fraction du monde arabe - celle repr\u00e9sent\u00e9e par les Fr\u00e8res musulmans, la Palestine, le printemps arabe, l'Iran et le Qatar : un chaudron de choses qui n'ont rien en commun les unes avec les autres[4]<\/a>. Un chaudron dans lequel Isra\u00ebl et le sionisme sont parfaitement \u00e0 l'aise, puisqu'ils font partie de l'\u00e9quipe men\u00e9e par les n\u00e9o-conservateurs de Donald Trump (qui ne repr\u00e9sentent qu'une fraction de l'extr\u00eame droite am\u00e9ricaine), le prince saoudien Bin Salman et le cheikh \u00e9mirati Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 \u00e0 Milan en 1977, Vidino a termin\u00e9 ses \u00e9tudes dans sa ville natale et a finalement obtenu l'une des sp\u00e9cialisations les plus exclusives au monde : celle de la Fletcher School de l'universit\u00e9 Tufts \u00e0 Medford (Massachussetts) [6]<\/a>, qui accueille chaque ann\u00e9e 230 \u00e9tudiants d'excellence mondiale et qui pr\u00e9pare depuis 90 ans des diplomates, des militaires et des lobbyistes pro-am\u00e9ricains travaillant au Moyen-Orient[7]<\/a>. Une \u00e9cole qui enseigne tous les maux possibles de la Russie de Poutine[8]<\/a> et la corruption dans le sport, en liant (\u00e0 juste titre, je pense) l'esprit de l'organisation des Jeux olympiques de Berlin de 1936 avec tant d'\u00e9v\u00e9nements sportifs de classe mondiale (\u00e0 commencer par la Coupe du monde en Argentine en 1978)[9]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00c0 la fin de ses \u00e9tudes, apr\u00e8s avoir \u00e9galement effectu\u00e9 une p\u00e9riode de formation dans le plus important lobby de l'industrie militaire am\u00e9ricaine (l'\u00e9cole de la RAND Corporation \u00e0 Arlington, en Virginie, au Pentagone[10]<\/a>), Vidino a choisi d'entrer \u00e0 la EFD (Fondation europ\u00e9enne pour la d\u00e9mocratie[11]<\/a>) pour y d\u00e9fendre les int\u00e9r\u00eats nationaux am\u00e9ricains : une organisation bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Bruxelles, active depuis 2005, qui finance la propagande (au sein du Parlement europ\u00e9en[12]<\/a>) des th\u00e8ses n\u00e9oconservatrices am\u00e9ricaines, selon lesquelles il existe de \"bons\" musulmans (Arabie, \u00c9gypte et \u00c9mirats) et de \"mauvais\" musulmans (les Fr\u00e8res musulmans et une liste d'organisations pacifistes li\u00e9es aux mouvements d\u00e9mocratiques dits du printemps arabe, actifs principalement en Angleterre, en Autriche et en Su\u00e8de) - qui, selon l'EFD, sont li\u00e9s au terrorisme fondamentaliste. Une th\u00e8se d\u00e9mentie par les faits, mais fonctionnelle \u00e0 l'alliance entre Isra\u00ebl, l'Arabie Saoudite et les Emirats contre tous les adversaires des monarchies du monde arabe[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une vid\u00e9oconf\u00e9rence de Jonathan Schanzer, l'un des principaux collaborateurs du pr\u00e9sident isra\u00e9lien Netanyahu, leader du FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'EFD est \u00e9galement financ\u00e9, depuis 2011, par des fonds provenant du budget de l'UE (environ 160 000 euros de contributions par an) et du gouvernement am\u00e9ricain (environ un demi-million de dollars) [15]<\/a>, et est dirig\u00e9 par Roberta Bonazzi, qui est \u00e9galement l'un des fondateurs de l'organisation[16]<\/a>. Mme Bonazzi, dont on sait qu'elle est \u00e0 la solde de plusieurs organisations d'extr\u00eame droite qui r\u00e9mun\u00e8rent l'EFD ou l'une de ses soci\u00e9t\u00e9s de conseil priv\u00e9es, comme Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, est c\u00e9l\u00e8bre pour son combat m\u00e9diatique contre le Hezbollah et sa tentative de lier cette organisation terroriste au mouvement de lib\u00e9ration de la Palestine et \u00e0 tous les jeunes musulmans qui luttent pour la d\u00e9mocratie dans le monde arabe[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'activit\u00e9 principale de M. Bonazzi consiste \u00e0 diriger la propagande politique pro-arabe et pro-am\u00e9ricaine dans plusieurs pays europ\u00e9ens, en premier lieu l'Arm\u00e9nie et l'Azerba\u00efdjan[19]<\/a>. Selon Bonazzi, derri\u00e8re ceux qui r\u00e9clament la d\u00e9mocratie, il n'y a pas le r\u00eave d'une g\u00e9n\u00e9ration d'Arabes qui veulent la fin du chauvinisme islamique radical, mais pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment son contraire : la th\u00e9ocratie iranienne, qui combat les monarchies du Golfe, les consid\u00e9rant (comme les Am\u00e9ricains l'aiment) comme modernes, libertaires et progressistes. En ce sens, Bonazzi travaille \u00e9troitement avec l'ambassadeur des \u00c9mirats \u00e0 Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, l'un des principaux collaborateurs de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, l'homme cl\u00e9 du pouvoir saoudien et \u00e9mirati dans le monde[22]<\/a>, marchand d'armes[23]<\/a> et ami et conseiller influent de Donald Trump sur les questions du Moyen-Orient[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En outre, l'EFD est \u00e9troitement li\u00e9 (sur le plan politique et organisationnel) \u00e0 la FDD (Fondation pour la d\u00e9fense des d\u00e9mocraties[25]<\/a>), qui, aux \u00c9tats-Unis, s'efforce d'obtenir des fonds pour l'EFD[26]<\/a>. Le FDD est l'une des organisations les plus radicales en faveur d'Isra\u00ebl et contre les pays arabes qui n'ont pas d'accord avec Tel Aviv, en premier lieu l'Iran[27]<\/a>. L'objectif du FDD est de pousser Washington, sur la base d'affirmations non fond\u00e9es (et souvent ouvertement fausses), \u00e0 mener des op\u00e9rations militaires en Syrie, en Iran, au Liban et dans d'autres pays du Moyen-Orient[28]<\/a>. Une th\u00e8se favorite des dirigeants du FDD consiste \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein et Oussama Ben Laden comme les dirigeants de la m\u00eame organisation terroriste responsable de l'attaque des tours jumelles \u00e0 New York le 11 septembre 2001 : le mouvement pour la lib\u00e9ration de la Palestine !!![29]<\/a>  Comme il est \u00e9vident, les dirigeants du FDD (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz et Jonathan Schanzer) sont des partisans ouverts de Donald Trump et de sa ligne sur les questions du Moyen-Orient[30]<\/a>. En 2009 d\u00e9j\u00e0, le FDD a vers\u00e9 pr\u00e8s d'un demi-million de dollars \u00e0 l'EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'inspiration de Breivik<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Le maniaque norv\u00e9gien Anders Behring Breivik se r\u00e9f\u00e8re \u00e0 Hitler pour expliquer le massacre qu'il a perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 en 2012, mais cite aussi les textes de Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entre-temps, Vidino est devenu un orateur politique populaire. Son ami Al Otaiba l'a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 au ministre des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res des EAU Abdullah Bin Zayed en 2017, apr\u00e8s que Vidino ait beaucoup travaill\u00e9 avec Quiller Consultants, le cabinet de lobbying bas\u00e9 \u00e0 Londres qui place des articles pro-Abu Dhabi dans la presse britannique[33]<\/a>. Dans le magazine trimestriel Middle East Quarterly, Vidino a affirm\u00e9 que \"l'Europe est devenue un incubateur de la pens\u00e9e et du d\u00e9veloppement politique islamistes\" : selon lui, les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont construit un \"vaste r\u00e9seau bien organis\u00e9 de mosqu\u00e9es, d'organisations caritatives et d'organisations islamiques\", dont le but serait d'\u00e9tendre le radicalisme islamique \u00e0 l'ensemble de l'Occident[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ces th\u00e8ses ne sont pas surprenantes. Son travail de lobbyiste \u00e0 l'EFD a conduit Vidino \u00e0 la prochaine \u00e9tape de sa carri\u00e8re : celle d'associ\u00e9 de TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, une agence d'\u00c9tat \u00e9miratie aux objectifs ambitieux : (a) analyser les menaces militaires, m\u00e9diatiques et cybern\u00e9tiques que repr\u00e9sentent les ennemis des monarchies du golfe Persique et impliquer les \u00c9tats-Unis dans les mesures visant \u00e0 r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 ces menaces ; b) d\u00e9signer et r\u00e9pertorier les adversaires des monarchies du golfe (d\u00e9finis tout court comme des \"terroristes\"), exercer des pressions diplomatiques pour qu'ils soient poursuivis, publier ce qu'il est possible de publier pour les discr\u00e9diter ; c) identifier, dans chaque pays, des alli\u00e9s possibles et les contacter ; d) identifier les personnes qui ont des int\u00e9r\u00eats dans les monarchies du golfe Persique et les contacter. d) pr\u00e9parer les \u00c9mirats \u00e0 un conflit militaire, en analysant ses co\u00fbts et ses avantages, et \u00e9valuer les \u00e9tapes n\u00e9cessaires pour s'assurer une place \u00e0 la table o\u00f9 sont distribu\u00e9s les lucratifs contrats de reconstruction ; e) financer des projets d'intelligence artificielle et de cybern\u00e9tique ayant des applications militaires utiles ; f) an\u00e9antir les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ; g) identifier des projets d'investissement \u00e9conomique et infrastructurel dans des pays pr\u00eats \u00e0 recevoir le message de l'islam tel qu'il est pratiqu\u00e9 dans le golfe Persique[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financ\u00e9 par le gotha militaire et p\u00e9trolier du Golfe Persique[37]<\/a>, est dirig\u00e9 par Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, qui a travaill\u00e9 pendant des ann\u00e9es comme conseiller acad\u00e9mique pour l'ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, fond\u00e9 en 1994 par Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan dans le but de justifier le r\u00e9armement massif des \u00c9mirats et aujourd'hui dirig\u00e9 par le chef des lobbyistes \u00e9miratis en Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi) [38]<\/a>. L'ECSSR travaille pour la Tawazun Holding de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. En ao\u00fbt 2017, Tawazun avait vers\u00e9 20 millions de dollars \u00e0 l'ECSSR, et l'ECSSR les a vers\u00e9s \u00e0 l'Institut du Moyen-Orient \u00e0 Washington : une association d'anciens militaires am\u00e9ricains, qui a \u00e0 son tour vers\u00e9 cette somme \u00e0 divers g\u00e9n\u00e9raux et politiciens pour donner un coup de fouet aux contrats militaires entre les \u00c9tats-Unis et les EAU[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire simple : TRENDS et ECSSR sont deux v\u00e9hicules utilis\u00e9s pour corrompre les politiciens et les militaires occidentaux, et Vidino s'emploie \u00e0 en sugg\u00e9rer de nouveaux[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, en tout cas, a \u00e9t\u00e9 impliqu\u00e9 dans plusieurs scandales de trafic d'armes[41]<\/a> et dans l'achat de logiciels espions particuli\u00e8rement pointus, de Pegasus \u00e0 DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. La diligence avec laquelle Vidino et ses coll\u00e8gues (issus d'associations li\u00e9es aux \u00c9mirats arabes unis) op\u00e8rent est telle que m\u00eame dans le golfe Persique, des voix se sont \u00e9lev\u00e9es pour demander la fin des mensonges, avant que ces th\u00e8ses, avanc\u00e9es par Vidino, ne deviennent l'arme d'un quelconque imprudent[43]<\/a>. Trop tard : les th\u00e8ses du lobbyiste milanais ont \u00e9t\u00e9 reprises par Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, le fou qui, en 2012, a tu\u00e9 77 personnes, dont 69 participants \u00e0 un camp d'\u00e9t\u00e9 de la Ligue de la jeunesse ouvri\u00e8re[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La STR-12, l'une des armes les plus avanc\u00e9es sur le plan technologique, a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e en 2012 \u00e0 Abu Dhabi gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une collaboration entre TRENDS Research et Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bien s\u00fbr, Vidino n'est pas responsable du massacre perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 par un psychopathe. Mais cela devrait \u00e9galement inciter \u00e0 la prudence dans l'utilisation des conseils du lobbyiste milanais. Le contraire est vrai : en Italie, par exemple, les services secrets l'ont port\u00e9 au poste de coordinateur de la Commission d'\u00e9tude sur la radicalisation et l'extr\u00e9misme djihadiste[47]<\/a>, qui existait pendant les ann\u00e9es des gouvernements dirig\u00e9s par Matteo Renzi et Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, et l'ont confirm\u00e9 dans l'actuelle Commission de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[49]<\/a>. Un poste dans lequel M. Vidino est en mesure d'influencer les d\u00e9cisions politiques en mati\u00e8re diplomatique et militaire, mais aussi de contr\u00f4ler les r\u00e9sidents musulmans individuels en Italie. Un poste similaire lui a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 attribu\u00e9 au Royaume-Uni, mais il a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9voqu\u00e9 peu apr\u00e8s[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le probl\u00e8me est encore plus prononc\u00e9 en Autriche, o\u00f9 Vidino est membre du conseil consultatif de l'Observatoire de l'islam du gouvernement autrichien[51]<\/a>, au nom duquel il a r\u00e9dig\u00e9 un rapport visant \u00e0 obtenir l'ostracisme contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[52]<\/a>, et collabore activement avec les services secrets, pour lesquels il a aid\u00e9 \u00e0 produire une carte des associations et des lieux de culte musulmans dans le pays[53]<\/a>. Ses \u00e9crits contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont donn\u00e9 lieu \u00e0 une op\u00e9ration de police en novembre 2020, dont l'objectif \u00e9tait de d\u00e9sarmer ce que Vidino consid\u00e8re comme de dangereuses cellules terroristes[54]<\/a>, et qui n'a donn\u00e9 aucun r\u00e9sultat : malgr\u00e9 les efforts de centaines de policiers et la brutalit\u00e9 utilis\u00e9e, tous les accus\u00e9s se sont r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9s innocents[55]<\/a>. Un de ces cas typiques o\u00f9, comme le dit le dicton, la plume des \u00e9crivains tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e des soldats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tout cela devrait faire r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir les politiciens europ\u00e9ens : le scandale des pots-de-vin \u00e0 Bruxelles ne montre pas seulement la faiblesse du syst\u00e8me politique de l'Union, mais il met \u00e9galement en \u00e9vidence la mani\u00e8re tr\u00e8s dangereuse dont des pays \"dangereux\" comme les \u00c9mirats arabes unis et l'Arabie saoudite peuvent provoquer des actes de violence polici\u00e8re ou d'injustice criminelle dans certains \u00c9tats, \u00e0 commencer par l'Italie, la Su\u00e8de et l'Autriche - des nations dans lesquelles l'EFD et Vidino ont non seulement d'excellents contacts, mais occupent \u00e9galement des postes op\u00e9rationnels dans les ganglions les plus sensibles de l'administration publique. Personnellement, cela me conforte dans mon opinion : l'UE n'a pas d'alli\u00e9s - ni la Russie, ni la Chine, ni les pays arabes, ni m\u00eame (et presque personne ne le sait) les \u00c9tats-Unis d'Am\u00e9rique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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De gauche \u00e0 droite : Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, membre du personnel consultatif de la Commission europ\u00e9enne), John Duhig et Marwa Farid (EFD), trois des figures les plus influentes de la campagne m\u00e9diatique contre le Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dans l'\u00e9closion de nouvelles organisations d'extr\u00eame droite, li\u00e9es au nationalisme, \u00e0 la religion, ou simplement \u00e0 une vision mystique et antid\u00e9mocratique de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9, les \u00c9tats-Unis continuent d'\u00eatre le pays leader : celui qui inspire, influence et oblige le reste du monde \u00e0 suivre ses modes, ses caprices, ses erreurs. Les figures les plus marquantes de cette tendance sont des milliardaires comme Elon Musk, Peter Thiel et Donald Trump, mais autour d'eux fleurissent des personnages, comme Steve Bannon, qui se situent entre les th\u00e9oriciens d'un nouveau m\u00e9di\u00e9visme technocratique et les \u00e9p\u00e9es avec lesquelles les milliardaires pr\u00e9cit\u00e9s, en guerre les uns contre les autres, s'affrontent dans les journaux, sur le web et \u00e0 la t\u00e9l\u00e9vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino est l'un des plus importants d'entre eux : un expert des affaires du Moyen-Orient, qui se bat contre Elon Musk, contre les crypto-monnaies, contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[2]<\/a>. Ce sont des choses qui n'ont rien \u00e0 voir entre elles, mais l'une des caract\u00e9ristiques de cette nouvelle extr\u00eame droite est d'\u00eatre, comme les th\u00e9ories \u00e9nonc\u00e9es par Adolf Hitler, totalisante[3]<\/a>, et de pr\u00e9tendre expliquer le monde entier \u00e0 partir d'un seul postulat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'une des principales diff\u00e9rences entre ces nouveaux gourous et ceux (comme Hermann Schmitz) du nazisme est que l'ennemi n'est plus le juda\u00efsme, mais une fraction du monde arabe - celle repr\u00e9sent\u00e9e par les Fr\u00e8res musulmans, la Palestine, le printemps arabe, l'Iran et le Qatar : un chaudron de choses qui n'ont rien en commun les unes avec les autres[4]<\/a>. Un chaudron dans lequel Isra\u00ebl et le sionisme sont parfaitement \u00e0 l'aise, puisqu'ils font partie de l'\u00e9quipe men\u00e9e par les n\u00e9o-conservateurs de Donald Trump (qui ne repr\u00e9sentent qu'une fraction de l'extr\u00eame droite am\u00e9ricaine), le prince saoudien Bin Salman et le cheikh \u00e9mirati Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 \u00e0 Milan en 1977, Vidino a termin\u00e9 ses \u00e9tudes dans sa ville natale et a finalement obtenu l'une des sp\u00e9cialisations les plus exclusives au monde : celle de la Fletcher School de l'universit\u00e9 Tufts \u00e0 Medford (Massachussetts) [6]<\/a>, qui accueille chaque ann\u00e9e 230 \u00e9tudiants d'excellence mondiale et qui pr\u00e9pare depuis 90 ans des diplomates, des militaires et des lobbyistes pro-am\u00e9ricains travaillant au Moyen-Orient[7]<\/a>. Une \u00e9cole qui enseigne tous les maux possibles de la Russie de Poutine[8]<\/a> et la corruption dans le sport, en liant (\u00e0 juste titre, je pense) l'esprit de l'organisation des Jeux olympiques de Berlin de 1936 avec tant d'\u00e9v\u00e9nements sportifs de classe mondiale (\u00e0 commencer par la Coupe du monde en Argentine en 1978)[9]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00c0 la fin de ses \u00e9tudes, apr\u00e8s avoir \u00e9galement effectu\u00e9 une p\u00e9riode de formation dans le plus important lobby de l'industrie militaire am\u00e9ricaine (l'\u00e9cole de la RAND Corporation \u00e0 Arlington, en Virginie, au Pentagone[10]<\/a>), Vidino a choisi d'entrer \u00e0 la EFD (Fondation europ\u00e9enne pour la d\u00e9mocratie[11]<\/a>) pour y d\u00e9fendre les int\u00e9r\u00eats nationaux am\u00e9ricains : une organisation bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Bruxelles, active depuis 2005, qui finance la propagande (au sein du Parlement europ\u00e9en[12]<\/a>) des th\u00e8ses n\u00e9oconservatrices am\u00e9ricaines, selon lesquelles il existe de \"bons\" musulmans (Arabie, \u00c9gypte et \u00c9mirats) et de \"mauvais\" musulmans (les Fr\u00e8res musulmans et une liste d'organisations pacifistes li\u00e9es aux mouvements d\u00e9mocratiques dits du printemps arabe, actifs principalement en Angleterre, en Autriche et en Su\u00e8de) - qui, selon l'EFD, sont li\u00e9s au terrorisme fondamentaliste. Une th\u00e8se d\u00e9mentie par les faits, mais fonctionnelle \u00e0 l'alliance entre Isra\u00ebl, l'Arabie Saoudite et les Emirats contre tous les adversaires des monarchies du monde arabe[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une vid\u00e9oconf\u00e9rence de Jonathan Schanzer, l'un des principaux collaborateurs du pr\u00e9sident isra\u00e9lien Netanyahu, leader du FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'EFD est \u00e9galement financ\u00e9, depuis 2011, par des fonds provenant du budget de l'UE (environ 160 000 euros de contributions par an) et du gouvernement am\u00e9ricain (environ un demi-million de dollars) [15]<\/a>, et est dirig\u00e9 par Roberta Bonazzi, qui est \u00e9galement l'un des fondateurs de l'organisation[16]<\/a>. Mme Bonazzi, dont on sait qu'elle est \u00e0 la solde de plusieurs organisations d'extr\u00eame droite qui r\u00e9mun\u00e8rent l'EFD ou l'une de ses soci\u00e9t\u00e9s de conseil priv\u00e9es, comme Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, est c\u00e9l\u00e8bre pour son combat m\u00e9diatique contre le Hezbollah et sa tentative de lier cette organisation terroriste au mouvement de lib\u00e9ration de la Palestine et \u00e0 tous les jeunes musulmans qui luttent pour la d\u00e9mocratie dans le monde arabe[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'activit\u00e9 principale de M. Bonazzi consiste \u00e0 diriger la propagande politique pro-arabe et pro-am\u00e9ricaine dans plusieurs pays europ\u00e9ens, en premier lieu l'Arm\u00e9nie et l'Azerba\u00efdjan[19]<\/a>. Selon Bonazzi, derri\u00e8re ceux qui r\u00e9clament la d\u00e9mocratie, il n'y a pas le r\u00eave d'une g\u00e9n\u00e9ration d'Arabes qui veulent la fin du chauvinisme islamique radical, mais pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment son contraire : la th\u00e9ocratie iranienne, qui combat les monarchies du Golfe, les consid\u00e9rant (comme les Am\u00e9ricains l'aiment) comme modernes, libertaires et progressistes. En ce sens, Bonazzi travaille \u00e9troitement avec l'ambassadeur des \u00c9mirats \u00e0 Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, l'un des principaux collaborateurs de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, l'homme cl\u00e9 du pouvoir saoudien et \u00e9mirati dans le monde[22]<\/a>, marchand d'armes[23]<\/a> et ami et conseiller influent de Donald Trump sur les questions du Moyen-Orient[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En outre, l'EFD est \u00e9troitement li\u00e9 (sur le plan politique et organisationnel) \u00e0 la FDD (Fondation pour la d\u00e9fense des d\u00e9mocraties[25]<\/a>), qui, aux \u00c9tats-Unis, s'efforce d'obtenir des fonds pour l'EFD[26]<\/a>. Le FDD est l'une des organisations les plus radicales en faveur d'Isra\u00ebl et contre les pays arabes qui n'ont pas d'accord avec Tel Aviv, en premier lieu l'Iran[27]<\/a>. L'objectif du FDD est de pousser Washington, sur la base d'affirmations non fond\u00e9es (et souvent ouvertement fausses), \u00e0 mener des op\u00e9rations militaires en Syrie, en Iran, au Liban et dans d'autres pays du Moyen-Orient[28]<\/a>. Une th\u00e8se favorite des dirigeants du FDD consiste \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein et Oussama Ben Laden comme les dirigeants de la m\u00eame organisation terroriste responsable de l'attaque des tours jumelles \u00e0 New York le 11 septembre 2001 : le mouvement pour la lib\u00e9ration de la Palestine !!![29]<\/a>  Comme il est \u00e9vident, les dirigeants du FDD (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz et Jonathan Schanzer) sont des partisans ouverts de Donald Trump et de sa ligne sur les questions du Moyen-Orient[30]<\/a>. En 2009 d\u00e9j\u00e0, le FDD a vers\u00e9 pr\u00e8s d'un demi-million de dollars \u00e0 l'EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'inspiration de Breivik<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Le maniaque norv\u00e9gien Anders Behring Breivik se r\u00e9f\u00e8re \u00e0 Hitler pour expliquer le massacre qu'il a perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 en 2012, mais cite aussi les textes de Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entre-temps, Vidino est devenu un orateur politique populaire. Son ami Al Otaiba l'a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 au ministre des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res des EAU Abdullah Bin Zayed en 2017, apr\u00e8s que Vidino ait beaucoup travaill\u00e9 avec Quiller Consultants, le cabinet de lobbying bas\u00e9 \u00e0 Londres qui place des articles pro-Abu Dhabi dans la presse britannique[33]<\/a>. Dans le magazine trimestriel Middle East Quarterly, Vidino a affirm\u00e9 que \"l'Europe est devenue un incubateur de la pens\u00e9e et du d\u00e9veloppement politique islamistes\" : selon lui, les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont construit un \"vaste r\u00e9seau bien organis\u00e9 de mosqu\u00e9es, d'organisations caritatives et d'organisations islamiques\", dont le but serait d'\u00e9tendre le radicalisme islamique \u00e0 l'ensemble de l'Occident[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ces th\u00e8ses ne sont pas surprenantes. Son travail de lobbyiste \u00e0 l'EFD a conduit Vidino \u00e0 la prochaine \u00e9tape de sa carri\u00e8re : celle d'associ\u00e9 de TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, une agence d'\u00c9tat \u00e9miratie aux objectifs ambitieux : (a) analyser les menaces militaires, m\u00e9diatiques et cybern\u00e9tiques que repr\u00e9sentent les ennemis des monarchies du golfe Persique et impliquer les \u00c9tats-Unis dans les mesures visant \u00e0 r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 ces menaces ; b) d\u00e9signer et r\u00e9pertorier les adversaires des monarchies du golfe (d\u00e9finis tout court comme des \"terroristes\"), exercer des pressions diplomatiques pour qu'ils soient poursuivis, publier ce qu'il est possible de publier pour les discr\u00e9diter ; c) identifier, dans chaque pays, des alli\u00e9s possibles et les contacter ; d) identifier les personnes qui ont des int\u00e9r\u00eats dans les monarchies du golfe Persique et les contacter. d) pr\u00e9parer les \u00c9mirats \u00e0 un conflit militaire, en analysant ses co\u00fbts et ses avantages, et \u00e9valuer les \u00e9tapes n\u00e9cessaires pour s'assurer une place \u00e0 la table o\u00f9 sont distribu\u00e9s les lucratifs contrats de reconstruction ; e) financer des projets d'intelligence artificielle et de cybern\u00e9tique ayant des applications militaires utiles ; f) an\u00e9antir les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ; g) identifier des projets d'investissement \u00e9conomique et infrastructurel dans des pays pr\u00eats \u00e0 recevoir le message de l'islam tel qu'il est pratiqu\u00e9 dans le golfe Persique[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financ\u00e9 par le gotha militaire et p\u00e9trolier du Golfe Persique[37]<\/a>, est dirig\u00e9 par Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, qui a travaill\u00e9 pendant des ann\u00e9es comme conseiller acad\u00e9mique pour l'ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, fond\u00e9 en 1994 par Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan dans le but de justifier le r\u00e9armement massif des \u00c9mirats et aujourd'hui dirig\u00e9 par le chef des lobbyistes \u00e9miratis en Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi) [38]<\/a>. L'ECSSR travaille pour la Tawazun Holding de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. En ao\u00fbt 2017, Tawazun avait vers\u00e9 20 millions de dollars \u00e0 l'ECSSR, et l'ECSSR les a vers\u00e9s \u00e0 l'Institut du Moyen-Orient \u00e0 Washington : une association d'anciens militaires am\u00e9ricains, qui a \u00e0 son tour vers\u00e9 cette somme \u00e0 divers g\u00e9n\u00e9raux et politiciens pour donner un coup de fouet aux contrats militaires entre les \u00c9tats-Unis et les EAU[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire simple : TRENDS et ECSSR sont deux v\u00e9hicules utilis\u00e9s pour corrompre les politiciens et les militaires occidentaux, et Vidino s'emploie \u00e0 en sugg\u00e9rer de nouveaux[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, en tout cas, a \u00e9t\u00e9 impliqu\u00e9 dans plusieurs scandales de trafic d'armes[41]<\/a> et dans l'achat de logiciels espions particuli\u00e8rement pointus, de Pegasus \u00e0 DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. La diligence avec laquelle Vidino et ses coll\u00e8gues (issus d'associations li\u00e9es aux \u00c9mirats arabes unis) op\u00e8rent est telle que m\u00eame dans le golfe Persique, des voix se sont \u00e9lev\u00e9es pour demander la fin des mensonges, avant que ces th\u00e8ses, avanc\u00e9es par Vidino, ne deviennent l'arme d'un quelconque imprudent[43]<\/a>. Trop tard : les th\u00e8ses du lobbyiste milanais ont \u00e9t\u00e9 reprises par Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, le fou qui, en 2012, a tu\u00e9 77 personnes, dont 69 participants \u00e0 un camp d'\u00e9t\u00e9 de la Ligue de la jeunesse ouvri\u00e8re[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La STR-12, l'une des armes les plus avanc\u00e9es sur le plan technologique, a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e en 2012 \u00e0 Abu Dhabi gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une collaboration entre TRENDS Research et Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bien s\u00fbr, Vidino n'est pas responsable du massacre perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 par un psychopathe. Mais cela devrait \u00e9galement inciter \u00e0 la prudence dans l'utilisation des conseils du lobbyiste milanais. Le contraire est vrai : en Italie, par exemple, les services secrets l'ont port\u00e9 au poste de coordinateur de la Commission d'\u00e9tude sur la radicalisation et l'extr\u00e9misme djihadiste[47]<\/a>, qui existait pendant les ann\u00e9es des gouvernements dirig\u00e9s par Matteo Renzi et Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, et l'ont confirm\u00e9 dans l'actuelle Commission de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[49]<\/a>. Un poste dans lequel M. Vidino est en mesure d'influencer les d\u00e9cisions politiques en mati\u00e8re diplomatique et militaire, mais aussi de contr\u00f4ler les r\u00e9sidents musulmans individuels en Italie. Un poste similaire lui a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 attribu\u00e9 au Royaume-Uni, mais il a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9voqu\u00e9 peu apr\u00e8s[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le probl\u00e8me est encore plus prononc\u00e9 en Autriche, o\u00f9 Vidino est membre du conseil consultatif de l'Observatoire de l'islam du gouvernement autrichien[51]<\/a>, au nom duquel il a r\u00e9dig\u00e9 un rapport visant \u00e0 obtenir l'ostracisme contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[52]<\/a>, et collabore activement avec les services secrets, pour lesquels il a aid\u00e9 \u00e0 produire une carte des associations et des lieux de culte musulmans dans le pays[53]<\/a>. Ses \u00e9crits contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont donn\u00e9 lieu \u00e0 une op\u00e9ration de police en novembre 2020, dont l'objectif \u00e9tait de d\u00e9sarmer ce que Vidino consid\u00e8re comme de dangereuses cellules terroristes[54]<\/a>, et qui n'a donn\u00e9 aucun r\u00e9sultat : malgr\u00e9 les efforts de centaines de policiers et la brutalit\u00e9 utilis\u00e9e, tous les accus\u00e9s se sont r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9s innocents[55]<\/a>. Un de ces cas typiques o\u00f9, comme le dit le dicton, la plume des \u00e9crivains tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e des soldats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tout cela devrait faire r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir les politiciens europ\u00e9ens : le scandale des pots-de-vin \u00e0 Bruxelles ne montre pas seulement la faiblesse du syst\u00e8me politique de l'Union, mais il met \u00e9galement en \u00e9vidence la mani\u00e8re tr\u00e8s dangereuse dont des pays \"dangereux\" comme les \u00c9mirats arabes unis et l'Arabie saoudite peuvent provoquer des actes de violence polici\u00e8re ou d'injustice criminelle dans certains \u00c9tats, \u00e0 commencer par l'Italie, la Su\u00e8de et l'Autriche - des nations dans lesquelles l'EFD et Vidino ont non seulement d'excellents contacts, mais occupent \u00e9galement des postes op\u00e9rationnels dans les ganglions les plus sensibles de l'administration publique. Personnellement, cela me conforte dans mon opinion : l'UE n'a pas d'alli\u00e9s - ni la Russie, ni la Chine, ni les pays arabes, ni m\u00eame (et presque personne ne le sait) les \u00c9tats-Unis d'Am\u00e9rique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

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His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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De gauche \u00e0 droite : Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, membre du personnel consultatif de la Commission europ\u00e9enne), John Duhig et Marwa Farid (EFD), trois des figures les plus influentes de la campagne m\u00e9diatique contre le Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dans l'\u00e9closion de nouvelles organisations d'extr\u00eame droite, li\u00e9es au nationalisme, \u00e0 la religion, ou simplement \u00e0 une vision mystique et antid\u00e9mocratique de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9, les \u00c9tats-Unis continuent d'\u00eatre le pays leader : celui qui inspire, influence et oblige le reste du monde \u00e0 suivre ses modes, ses caprices, ses erreurs. Les figures les plus marquantes de cette tendance sont des milliardaires comme Elon Musk, Peter Thiel et Donald Trump, mais autour d'eux fleurissent des personnages, comme Steve Bannon, qui se situent entre les th\u00e9oriciens d'un nouveau m\u00e9di\u00e9visme technocratique et les \u00e9p\u00e9es avec lesquelles les milliardaires pr\u00e9cit\u00e9s, en guerre les uns contre les autres, s'affrontent dans les journaux, sur le web et \u00e0 la t\u00e9l\u00e9vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino est l'un des plus importants d'entre eux : un expert des affaires du Moyen-Orient, qui se bat contre Elon Musk, contre les crypto-monnaies, contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[2]<\/a>. Ce sont des choses qui n'ont rien \u00e0 voir entre elles, mais l'une des caract\u00e9ristiques de cette nouvelle extr\u00eame droite est d'\u00eatre, comme les th\u00e9ories \u00e9nonc\u00e9es par Adolf Hitler, totalisante[3]<\/a>, et de pr\u00e9tendre expliquer le monde entier \u00e0 partir d'un seul postulat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'une des principales diff\u00e9rences entre ces nouveaux gourous et ceux (comme Hermann Schmitz) du nazisme est que l'ennemi n'est plus le juda\u00efsme, mais une fraction du monde arabe - celle repr\u00e9sent\u00e9e par les Fr\u00e8res musulmans, la Palestine, le printemps arabe, l'Iran et le Qatar : un chaudron de choses qui n'ont rien en commun les unes avec les autres[4]<\/a>. Un chaudron dans lequel Isra\u00ebl et le sionisme sont parfaitement \u00e0 l'aise, puisqu'ils font partie de l'\u00e9quipe men\u00e9e par les n\u00e9o-conservateurs de Donald Trump (qui ne repr\u00e9sentent qu'une fraction de l'extr\u00eame droite am\u00e9ricaine), le prince saoudien Bin Salman et le cheikh \u00e9mirati Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 \u00e0 Milan en 1977, Vidino a termin\u00e9 ses \u00e9tudes dans sa ville natale et a finalement obtenu l'une des sp\u00e9cialisations les plus exclusives au monde : celle de la Fletcher School de l'universit\u00e9 Tufts \u00e0 Medford (Massachussetts) [6]<\/a>, qui accueille chaque ann\u00e9e 230 \u00e9tudiants d'excellence mondiale et qui pr\u00e9pare depuis 90 ans des diplomates, des militaires et des lobbyistes pro-am\u00e9ricains travaillant au Moyen-Orient[7]<\/a>. Une \u00e9cole qui enseigne tous les maux possibles de la Russie de Poutine[8]<\/a> et la corruption dans le sport, en liant (\u00e0 juste titre, je pense) l'esprit de l'organisation des Jeux olympiques de Berlin de 1936 avec tant d'\u00e9v\u00e9nements sportifs de classe mondiale (\u00e0 commencer par la Coupe du monde en Argentine en 1978)[9]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00c0 la fin de ses \u00e9tudes, apr\u00e8s avoir \u00e9galement effectu\u00e9 une p\u00e9riode de formation dans le plus important lobby de l'industrie militaire am\u00e9ricaine (l'\u00e9cole de la RAND Corporation \u00e0 Arlington, en Virginie, au Pentagone[10]<\/a>), Vidino a choisi d'entrer \u00e0 la EFD (Fondation europ\u00e9enne pour la d\u00e9mocratie[11]<\/a>) pour y d\u00e9fendre les int\u00e9r\u00eats nationaux am\u00e9ricains : une organisation bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Bruxelles, active depuis 2005, qui finance la propagande (au sein du Parlement europ\u00e9en[12]<\/a>) des th\u00e8ses n\u00e9oconservatrices am\u00e9ricaines, selon lesquelles il existe de \"bons\" musulmans (Arabie, \u00c9gypte et \u00c9mirats) et de \"mauvais\" musulmans (les Fr\u00e8res musulmans et une liste d'organisations pacifistes li\u00e9es aux mouvements d\u00e9mocratiques dits du printemps arabe, actifs principalement en Angleterre, en Autriche et en Su\u00e8de) - qui, selon l'EFD, sont li\u00e9s au terrorisme fondamentaliste. Une th\u00e8se d\u00e9mentie par les faits, mais fonctionnelle \u00e0 l'alliance entre Isra\u00ebl, l'Arabie Saoudite et les Emirats contre tous les adversaires des monarchies du monde arabe[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une vid\u00e9oconf\u00e9rence de Jonathan Schanzer, l'un des principaux collaborateurs du pr\u00e9sident isra\u00e9lien Netanyahu, leader du FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'EFD est \u00e9galement financ\u00e9, depuis 2011, par des fonds provenant du budget de l'UE (environ 160 000 euros de contributions par an) et du gouvernement am\u00e9ricain (environ un demi-million de dollars) [15]<\/a>, et est dirig\u00e9 par Roberta Bonazzi, qui est \u00e9galement l'un des fondateurs de l'organisation[16]<\/a>. Mme Bonazzi, dont on sait qu'elle est \u00e0 la solde de plusieurs organisations d'extr\u00eame droite qui r\u00e9mun\u00e8rent l'EFD ou l'une de ses soci\u00e9t\u00e9s de conseil priv\u00e9es, comme Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, est c\u00e9l\u00e8bre pour son combat m\u00e9diatique contre le Hezbollah et sa tentative de lier cette organisation terroriste au mouvement de lib\u00e9ration de la Palestine et \u00e0 tous les jeunes musulmans qui luttent pour la d\u00e9mocratie dans le monde arabe[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'activit\u00e9 principale de M. Bonazzi consiste \u00e0 diriger la propagande politique pro-arabe et pro-am\u00e9ricaine dans plusieurs pays europ\u00e9ens, en premier lieu l'Arm\u00e9nie et l'Azerba\u00efdjan[19]<\/a>. Selon Bonazzi, derri\u00e8re ceux qui r\u00e9clament la d\u00e9mocratie, il n'y a pas le r\u00eave d'une g\u00e9n\u00e9ration d'Arabes qui veulent la fin du chauvinisme islamique radical, mais pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment son contraire : la th\u00e9ocratie iranienne, qui combat les monarchies du Golfe, les consid\u00e9rant (comme les Am\u00e9ricains l'aiment) comme modernes, libertaires et progressistes. En ce sens, Bonazzi travaille \u00e9troitement avec l'ambassadeur des \u00c9mirats \u00e0 Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, l'un des principaux collaborateurs de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, l'homme cl\u00e9 du pouvoir saoudien et \u00e9mirati dans le monde[22]<\/a>, marchand d'armes[23]<\/a> et ami et conseiller influent de Donald Trump sur les questions du Moyen-Orient[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En outre, l'EFD est \u00e9troitement li\u00e9 (sur le plan politique et organisationnel) \u00e0 la FDD (Fondation pour la d\u00e9fense des d\u00e9mocraties[25]<\/a>), qui, aux \u00c9tats-Unis, s'efforce d'obtenir des fonds pour l'EFD[26]<\/a>. Le FDD est l'une des organisations les plus radicales en faveur d'Isra\u00ebl et contre les pays arabes qui n'ont pas d'accord avec Tel Aviv, en premier lieu l'Iran[27]<\/a>. L'objectif du FDD est de pousser Washington, sur la base d'affirmations non fond\u00e9es (et souvent ouvertement fausses), \u00e0 mener des op\u00e9rations militaires en Syrie, en Iran, au Liban et dans d'autres pays du Moyen-Orient[28]<\/a>. Une th\u00e8se favorite des dirigeants du FDD consiste \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein et Oussama Ben Laden comme les dirigeants de la m\u00eame organisation terroriste responsable de l'attaque des tours jumelles \u00e0 New York le 11 septembre 2001 : le mouvement pour la lib\u00e9ration de la Palestine !!![29]<\/a>  Comme il est \u00e9vident, les dirigeants du FDD (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz et Jonathan Schanzer) sont des partisans ouverts de Donald Trump et de sa ligne sur les questions du Moyen-Orient[30]<\/a>. En 2009 d\u00e9j\u00e0, le FDD a vers\u00e9 pr\u00e8s d'un demi-million de dollars \u00e0 l'EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'inspiration de Breivik<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Le maniaque norv\u00e9gien Anders Behring Breivik se r\u00e9f\u00e8re \u00e0 Hitler pour expliquer le massacre qu'il a perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 en 2012, mais cite aussi les textes de Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entre-temps, Vidino est devenu un orateur politique populaire. Son ami Al Otaiba l'a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 au ministre des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res des EAU Abdullah Bin Zayed en 2017, apr\u00e8s que Vidino ait beaucoup travaill\u00e9 avec Quiller Consultants, le cabinet de lobbying bas\u00e9 \u00e0 Londres qui place des articles pro-Abu Dhabi dans la presse britannique[33]<\/a>. Dans le magazine trimestriel Middle East Quarterly, Vidino a affirm\u00e9 que \"l'Europe est devenue un incubateur de la pens\u00e9e et du d\u00e9veloppement politique islamistes\" : selon lui, les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont construit un \"vaste r\u00e9seau bien organis\u00e9 de mosqu\u00e9es, d'organisations caritatives et d'organisations islamiques\", dont le but serait d'\u00e9tendre le radicalisme islamique \u00e0 l'ensemble de l'Occident[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ces th\u00e8ses ne sont pas surprenantes. Son travail de lobbyiste \u00e0 l'EFD a conduit Vidino \u00e0 la prochaine \u00e9tape de sa carri\u00e8re : celle d'associ\u00e9 de TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, une agence d'\u00c9tat \u00e9miratie aux objectifs ambitieux : (a) analyser les menaces militaires, m\u00e9diatiques et cybern\u00e9tiques que repr\u00e9sentent les ennemis des monarchies du golfe Persique et impliquer les \u00c9tats-Unis dans les mesures visant \u00e0 r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 ces menaces ; b) d\u00e9signer et r\u00e9pertorier les adversaires des monarchies du golfe (d\u00e9finis tout court comme des \"terroristes\"), exercer des pressions diplomatiques pour qu'ils soient poursuivis, publier ce qu'il est possible de publier pour les discr\u00e9diter ; c) identifier, dans chaque pays, des alli\u00e9s possibles et les contacter ; d) identifier les personnes qui ont des int\u00e9r\u00eats dans les monarchies du golfe Persique et les contacter. d) pr\u00e9parer les \u00c9mirats \u00e0 un conflit militaire, en analysant ses co\u00fbts et ses avantages, et \u00e9valuer les \u00e9tapes n\u00e9cessaires pour s'assurer une place \u00e0 la table o\u00f9 sont distribu\u00e9s les lucratifs contrats de reconstruction ; e) financer des projets d'intelligence artificielle et de cybern\u00e9tique ayant des applications militaires utiles ; f) an\u00e9antir les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ; g) identifier des projets d'investissement \u00e9conomique et infrastructurel dans des pays pr\u00eats \u00e0 recevoir le message de l'islam tel qu'il est pratiqu\u00e9 dans le golfe Persique[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financ\u00e9 par le gotha militaire et p\u00e9trolier du Golfe Persique[37]<\/a>, est dirig\u00e9 par Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, qui a travaill\u00e9 pendant des ann\u00e9es comme conseiller acad\u00e9mique pour l'ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, fond\u00e9 en 1994 par Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan dans le but de justifier le r\u00e9armement massif des \u00c9mirats et aujourd'hui dirig\u00e9 par le chef des lobbyistes \u00e9miratis en Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi) [38]<\/a>. L'ECSSR travaille pour la Tawazun Holding de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. En ao\u00fbt 2017, Tawazun avait vers\u00e9 20 millions de dollars \u00e0 l'ECSSR, et l'ECSSR les a vers\u00e9s \u00e0 l'Institut du Moyen-Orient \u00e0 Washington : une association d'anciens militaires am\u00e9ricains, qui a \u00e0 son tour vers\u00e9 cette somme \u00e0 divers g\u00e9n\u00e9raux et politiciens pour donner un coup de fouet aux contrats militaires entre les \u00c9tats-Unis et les EAU[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire simple : TRENDS et ECSSR sont deux v\u00e9hicules utilis\u00e9s pour corrompre les politiciens et les militaires occidentaux, et Vidino s'emploie \u00e0 en sugg\u00e9rer de nouveaux[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, en tout cas, a \u00e9t\u00e9 impliqu\u00e9 dans plusieurs scandales de trafic d'armes[41]<\/a> et dans l'achat de logiciels espions particuli\u00e8rement pointus, de Pegasus \u00e0 DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. La diligence avec laquelle Vidino et ses coll\u00e8gues (issus d'associations li\u00e9es aux \u00c9mirats arabes unis) op\u00e8rent est telle que m\u00eame dans le golfe Persique, des voix se sont \u00e9lev\u00e9es pour demander la fin des mensonges, avant que ces th\u00e8ses, avanc\u00e9es par Vidino, ne deviennent l'arme d'un quelconque imprudent[43]<\/a>. Trop tard : les th\u00e8ses du lobbyiste milanais ont \u00e9t\u00e9 reprises par Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, le fou qui, en 2012, a tu\u00e9 77 personnes, dont 69 participants \u00e0 un camp d'\u00e9t\u00e9 de la Ligue de la jeunesse ouvri\u00e8re[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La STR-12, l'une des armes les plus avanc\u00e9es sur le plan technologique, a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e en 2012 \u00e0 Abu Dhabi gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une collaboration entre TRENDS Research et Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bien s\u00fbr, Vidino n'est pas responsable du massacre perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 par un psychopathe. Mais cela devrait \u00e9galement inciter \u00e0 la prudence dans l'utilisation des conseils du lobbyiste milanais. Le contraire est vrai : en Italie, par exemple, les services secrets l'ont port\u00e9 au poste de coordinateur de la Commission d'\u00e9tude sur la radicalisation et l'extr\u00e9misme djihadiste[47]<\/a>, qui existait pendant les ann\u00e9es des gouvernements dirig\u00e9s par Matteo Renzi et Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, et l'ont confirm\u00e9 dans l'actuelle Commission de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[49]<\/a>. Un poste dans lequel M. Vidino est en mesure d'influencer les d\u00e9cisions politiques en mati\u00e8re diplomatique et militaire, mais aussi de contr\u00f4ler les r\u00e9sidents musulmans individuels en Italie. Un poste similaire lui a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 attribu\u00e9 au Royaume-Uni, mais il a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9voqu\u00e9 peu apr\u00e8s[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le probl\u00e8me est encore plus prononc\u00e9 en Autriche, o\u00f9 Vidino est membre du conseil consultatif de l'Observatoire de l'islam du gouvernement autrichien[51]<\/a>, au nom duquel il a r\u00e9dig\u00e9 un rapport visant \u00e0 obtenir l'ostracisme contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[52]<\/a>, et collabore activement avec les services secrets, pour lesquels il a aid\u00e9 \u00e0 produire une carte des associations et des lieux de culte musulmans dans le pays[53]<\/a>. Ses \u00e9crits contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont donn\u00e9 lieu \u00e0 une op\u00e9ration de police en novembre 2020, dont l'objectif \u00e9tait de d\u00e9sarmer ce que Vidino consid\u00e8re comme de dangereuses cellules terroristes[54]<\/a>, et qui n'a donn\u00e9 aucun r\u00e9sultat : malgr\u00e9 les efforts de centaines de policiers et la brutalit\u00e9 utilis\u00e9e, tous les accus\u00e9s se sont r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9s innocents[55]<\/a>. Un de ces cas typiques o\u00f9, comme le dit le dicton, la plume des \u00e9crivains tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e des soldats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tout cela devrait faire r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir les politiciens europ\u00e9ens : le scandale des pots-de-vin \u00e0 Bruxelles ne montre pas seulement la faiblesse du syst\u00e8me politique de l'Union, mais il met \u00e9galement en \u00e9vidence la mani\u00e8re tr\u00e8s dangereuse dont des pays \"dangereux\" comme les \u00c9mirats arabes unis et l'Arabie saoudite peuvent provoquer des actes de violence polici\u00e8re ou d'injustice criminelle dans certains \u00c9tats, \u00e0 commencer par l'Italie, la Su\u00e8de et l'Autriche - des nations dans lesquelles l'EFD et Vidino ont non seulement d'excellents contacts, mais occupent \u00e9galement des postes op\u00e9rationnels dans les ganglions les plus sensibles de l'administration publique. Personnellement, cela me conforte dans mon opinion : l'UE n'a pas d'alli\u00e9s - ni la Russie, ni la Chine, ni les pays arabes, ni m\u00eame (et presque personne ne le sait) les \u00c9tats-Unis d'Am\u00e9rique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Un jeune n\u00e9ocon est n\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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De gauche \u00e0 droite : Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, membre du personnel consultatif de la Commission europ\u00e9enne), John Duhig et Marwa Farid (EFD), trois des figures les plus influentes de la campagne m\u00e9diatique contre le Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dans l'\u00e9closion de nouvelles organisations d'extr\u00eame droite, li\u00e9es au nationalisme, \u00e0 la religion, ou simplement \u00e0 une vision mystique et antid\u00e9mocratique de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9, les \u00c9tats-Unis continuent d'\u00eatre le pays leader : celui qui inspire, influence et oblige le reste du monde \u00e0 suivre ses modes, ses caprices, ses erreurs. Les figures les plus marquantes de cette tendance sont des milliardaires comme Elon Musk, Peter Thiel et Donald Trump, mais autour d'eux fleurissent des personnages, comme Steve Bannon, qui se situent entre les th\u00e9oriciens d'un nouveau m\u00e9di\u00e9visme technocratique et les \u00e9p\u00e9es avec lesquelles les milliardaires pr\u00e9cit\u00e9s, en guerre les uns contre les autres, s'affrontent dans les journaux, sur le web et \u00e0 la t\u00e9l\u00e9vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino est l'un des plus importants d'entre eux : un expert des affaires du Moyen-Orient, qui se bat contre Elon Musk, contre les crypto-monnaies, contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[2]<\/a>. Ce sont des choses qui n'ont rien \u00e0 voir entre elles, mais l'une des caract\u00e9ristiques de cette nouvelle extr\u00eame droite est d'\u00eatre, comme les th\u00e9ories \u00e9nonc\u00e9es par Adolf Hitler, totalisante[3]<\/a>, et de pr\u00e9tendre expliquer le monde entier \u00e0 partir d'un seul postulat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'une des principales diff\u00e9rences entre ces nouveaux gourous et ceux (comme Hermann Schmitz) du nazisme est que l'ennemi n'est plus le juda\u00efsme, mais une fraction du monde arabe - celle repr\u00e9sent\u00e9e par les Fr\u00e8res musulmans, la Palestine, le printemps arabe, l'Iran et le Qatar : un chaudron de choses qui n'ont rien en commun les unes avec les autres[4]<\/a>. Un chaudron dans lequel Isra\u00ebl et le sionisme sont parfaitement \u00e0 l'aise, puisqu'ils font partie de l'\u00e9quipe men\u00e9e par les n\u00e9o-conservateurs de Donald Trump (qui ne repr\u00e9sentent qu'une fraction de l'extr\u00eame droite am\u00e9ricaine), le prince saoudien Bin Salman et le cheikh \u00e9mirati Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 \u00e0 Milan en 1977, Vidino a termin\u00e9 ses \u00e9tudes dans sa ville natale et a finalement obtenu l'une des sp\u00e9cialisations les plus exclusives au monde : celle de la Fletcher School de l'universit\u00e9 Tufts \u00e0 Medford (Massachussetts) [6]<\/a>, qui accueille chaque ann\u00e9e 230 \u00e9tudiants d'excellence mondiale et qui pr\u00e9pare depuis 90 ans des diplomates, des militaires et des lobbyistes pro-am\u00e9ricains travaillant au Moyen-Orient[7]<\/a>. Une \u00e9cole qui enseigne tous les maux possibles de la Russie de Poutine[8]<\/a> et la corruption dans le sport, en liant (\u00e0 juste titre, je pense) l'esprit de l'organisation des Jeux olympiques de Berlin de 1936 avec tant d'\u00e9v\u00e9nements sportifs de classe mondiale (\u00e0 commencer par la Coupe du monde en Argentine en 1978)[9]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00c0 la fin de ses \u00e9tudes, apr\u00e8s avoir \u00e9galement effectu\u00e9 une p\u00e9riode de formation dans le plus important lobby de l'industrie militaire am\u00e9ricaine (l'\u00e9cole de la RAND Corporation \u00e0 Arlington, en Virginie, au Pentagone[10]<\/a>), Vidino a choisi d'entrer \u00e0 la EFD (Fondation europ\u00e9enne pour la d\u00e9mocratie[11]<\/a>) pour y d\u00e9fendre les int\u00e9r\u00eats nationaux am\u00e9ricains : une organisation bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Bruxelles, active depuis 2005, qui finance la propagande (au sein du Parlement europ\u00e9en[12]<\/a>) des th\u00e8ses n\u00e9oconservatrices am\u00e9ricaines, selon lesquelles il existe de \"bons\" musulmans (Arabie, \u00c9gypte et \u00c9mirats) et de \"mauvais\" musulmans (les Fr\u00e8res musulmans et une liste d'organisations pacifistes li\u00e9es aux mouvements d\u00e9mocratiques dits du printemps arabe, actifs principalement en Angleterre, en Autriche et en Su\u00e8de) - qui, selon l'EFD, sont li\u00e9s au terrorisme fondamentaliste. Une th\u00e8se d\u00e9mentie par les faits, mais fonctionnelle \u00e0 l'alliance entre Isra\u00ebl, l'Arabie Saoudite et les Emirats contre tous les adversaires des monarchies du monde arabe[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une vid\u00e9oconf\u00e9rence de Jonathan Schanzer, l'un des principaux collaborateurs du pr\u00e9sident isra\u00e9lien Netanyahu, leader du FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'EFD est \u00e9galement financ\u00e9, depuis 2011, par des fonds provenant du budget de l'UE (environ 160 000 euros de contributions par an) et du gouvernement am\u00e9ricain (environ un demi-million de dollars) [15]<\/a>, et est dirig\u00e9 par Roberta Bonazzi, qui est \u00e9galement l'un des fondateurs de l'organisation[16]<\/a>. Mme Bonazzi, dont on sait qu'elle est \u00e0 la solde de plusieurs organisations d'extr\u00eame droite qui r\u00e9mun\u00e8rent l'EFD ou l'une de ses soci\u00e9t\u00e9s de conseil priv\u00e9es, comme Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, est c\u00e9l\u00e8bre pour son combat m\u00e9diatique contre le Hezbollah et sa tentative de lier cette organisation terroriste au mouvement de lib\u00e9ration de la Palestine et \u00e0 tous les jeunes musulmans qui luttent pour la d\u00e9mocratie dans le monde arabe[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'activit\u00e9 principale de M. Bonazzi consiste \u00e0 diriger la propagande politique pro-arabe et pro-am\u00e9ricaine dans plusieurs pays europ\u00e9ens, en premier lieu l'Arm\u00e9nie et l'Azerba\u00efdjan[19]<\/a>. Selon Bonazzi, derri\u00e8re ceux qui r\u00e9clament la d\u00e9mocratie, il n'y a pas le r\u00eave d'une g\u00e9n\u00e9ration d'Arabes qui veulent la fin du chauvinisme islamique radical, mais pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment son contraire : la th\u00e9ocratie iranienne, qui combat les monarchies du Golfe, les consid\u00e9rant (comme les Am\u00e9ricains l'aiment) comme modernes, libertaires et progressistes. En ce sens, Bonazzi travaille \u00e9troitement avec l'ambassadeur des \u00c9mirats \u00e0 Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, l'un des principaux collaborateurs de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, l'homme cl\u00e9 du pouvoir saoudien et \u00e9mirati dans le monde[22]<\/a>, marchand d'armes[23]<\/a> et ami et conseiller influent de Donald Trump sur les questions du Moyen-Orient[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En outre, l'EFD est \u00e9troitement li\u00e9 (sur le plan politique et organisationnel) \u00e0 la FDD (Fondation pour la d\u00e9fense des d\u00e9mocraties[25]<\/a>), qui, aux \u00c9tats-Unis, s'efforce d'obtenir des fonds pour l'EFD[26]<\/a>. Le FDD est l'une des organisations les plus radicales en faveur d'Isra\u00ebl et contre les pays arabes qui n'ont pas d'accord avec Tel Aviv, en premier lieu l'Iran[27]<\/a>. L'objectif du FDD est de pousser Washington, sur la base d'affirmations non fond\u00e9es (et souvent ouvertement fausses), \u00e0 mener des op\u00e9rations militaires en Syrie, en Iran, au Liban et dans d'autres pays du Moyen-Orient[28]<\/a>. Une th\u00e8se favorite des dirigeants du FDD consiste \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein et Oussama Ben Laden comme les dirigeants de la m\u00eame organisation terroriste responsable de l'attaque des tours jumelles \u00e0 New York le 11 septembre 2001 : le mouvement pour la lib\u00e9ration de la Palestine !!![29]<\/a>  Comme il est \u00e9vident, les dirigeants du FDD (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz et Jonathan Schanzer) sont des partisans ouverts de Donald Trump et de sa ligne sur les questions du Moyen-Orient[30]<\/a>. En 2009 d\u00e9j\u00e0, le FDD a vers\u00e9 pr\u00e8s d'un demi-million de dollars \u00e0 l'EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'inspiration de Breivik<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Le maniaque norv\u00e9gien Anders Behring Breivik se r\u00e9f\u00e8re \u00e0 Hitler pour expliquer le massacre qu'il a perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 en 2012, mais cite aussi les textes de Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entre-temps, Vidino est devenu un orateur politique populaire. Son ami Al Otaiba l'a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 au ministre des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res des EAU Abdullah Bin Zayed en 2017, apr\u00e8s que Vidino ait beaucoup travaill\u00e9 avec Quiller Consultants, le cabinet de lobbying bas\u00e9 \u00e0 Londres qui place des articles pro-Abu Dhabi dans la presse britannique[33]<\/a>. Dans le magazine trimestriel Middle East Quarterly, Vidino a affirm\u00e9 que \"l'Europe est devenue un incubateur de la pens\u00e9e et du d\u00e9veloppement politique islamistes\" : selon lui, les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont construit un \"vaste r\u00e9seau bien organis\u00e9 de mosqu\u00e9es, d'organisations caritatives et d'organisations islamiques\", dont le but serait d'\u00e9tendre le radicalisme islamique \u00e0 l'ensemble de l'Occident[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ces th\u00e8ses ne sont pas surprenantes. Son travail de lobbyiste \u00e0 l'EFD a conduit Vidino \u00e0 la prochaine \u00e9tape de sa carri\u00e8re : celle d'associ\u00e9 de TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, une agence d'\u00c9tat \u00e9miratie aux objectifs ambitieux : (a) analyser les menaces militaires, m\u00e9diatiques et cybern\u00e9tiques que repr\u00e9sentent les ennemis des monarchies du golfe Persique et impliquer les \u00c9tats-Unis dans les mesures visant \u00e0 r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 ces menaces ; b) d\u00e9signer et r\u00e9pertorier les adversaires des monarchies du golfe (d\u00e9finis tout court comme des \"terroristes\"), exercer des pressions diplomatiques pour qu'ils soient poursuivis, publier ce qu'il est possible de publier pour les discr\u00e9diter ; c) identifier, dans chaque pays, des alli\u00e9s possibles et les contacter ; d) identifier les personnes qui ont des int\u00e9r\u00eats dans les monarchies du golfe Persique et les contacter. d) pr\u00e9parer les \u00c9mirats \u00e0 un conflit militaire, en analysant ses co\u00fbts et ses avantages, et \u00e9valuer les \u00e9tapes n\u00e9cessaires pour s'assurer une place \u00e0 la table o\u00f9 sont distribu\u00e9s les lucratifs contrats de reconstruction ; e) financer des projets d'intelligence artificielle et de cybern\u00e9tique ayant des applications militaires utiles ; f) an\u00e9antir les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ; g) identifier des projets d'investissement \u00e9conomique et infrastructurel dans des pays pr\u00eats \u00e0 recevoir le message de l'islam tel qu'il est pratiqu\u00e9 dans le golfe Persique[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financ\u00e9 par le gotha militaire et p\u00e9trolier du Golfe Persique[37]<\/a>, est dirig\u00e9 par Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, qui a travaill\u00e9 pendant des ann\u00e9es comme conseiller acad\u00e9mique pour l'ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, fond\u00e9 en 1994 par Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan dans le but de justifier le r\u00e9armement massif des \u00c9mirats et aujourd'hui dirig\u00e9 par le chef des lobbyistes \u00e9miratis en Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi) [38]<\/a>. L'ECSSR travaille pour la Tawazun Holding de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. En ao\u00fbt 2017, Tawazun avait vers\u00e9 20 millions de dollars \u00e0 l'ECSSR, et l'ECSSR les a vers\u00e9s \u00e0 l'Institut du Moyen-Orient \u00e0 Washington : une association d'anciens militaires am\u00e9ricains, qui a \u00e0 son tour vers\u00e9 cette somme \u00e0 divers g\u00e9n\u00e9raux et politiciens pour donner un coup de fouet aux contrats militaires entre les \u00c9tats-Unis et les EAU[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire simple : TRENDS et ECSSR sont deux v\u00e9hicules utilis\u00e9s pour corrompre les politiciens et les militaires occidentaux, et Vidino s'emploie \u00e0 en sugg\u00e9rer de nouveaux[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, en tout cas, a \u00e9t\u00e9 impliqu\u00e9 dans plusieurs scandales de trafic d'armes[41]<\/a> et dans l'achat de logiciels espions particuli\u00e8rement pointus, de Pegasus \u00e0 DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. La diligence avec laquelle Vidino et ses coll\u00e8gues (issus d'associations li\u00e9es aux \u00c9mirats arabes unis) op\u00e8rent est telle que m\u00eame dans le golfe Persique, des voix se sont \u00e9lev\u00e9es pour demander la fin des mensonges, avant que ces th\u00e8ses, avanc\u00e9es par Vidino, ne deviennent l'arme d'un quelconque imprudent[43]<\/a>. Trop tard : les th\u00e8ses du lobbyiste milanais ont \u00e9t\u00e9 reprises par Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, le fou qui, en 2012, a tu\u00e9 77 personnes, dont 69 participants \u00e0 un camp d'\u00e9t\u00e9 de la Ligue de la jeunesse ouvri\u00e8re[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La STR-12, l'une des armes les plus avanc\u00e9es sur le plan technologique, a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e en 2012 \u00e0 Abu Dhabi gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une collaboration entre TRENDS Research et Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bien s\u00fbr, Vidino n'est pas responsable du massacre perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 par un psychopathe. Mais cela devrait \u00e9galement inciter \u00e0 la prudence dans l'utilisation des conseils du lobbyiste milanais. Le contraire est vrai : en Italie, par exemple, les services secrets l'ont port\u00e9 au poste de coordinateur de la Commission d'\u00e9tude sur la radicalisation et l'extr\u00e9misme djihadiste[47]<\/a>, qui existait pendant les ann\u00e9es des gouvernements dirig\u00e9s par Matteo Renzi et Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, et l'ont confirm\u00e9 dans l'actuelle Commission de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[49]<\/a>. Un poste dans lequel M. Vidino est en mesure d'influencer les d\u00e9cisions politiques en mati\u00e8re diplomatique et militaire, mais aussi de contr\u00f4ler les r\u00e9sidents musulmans individuels en Italie. Un poste similaire lui a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 attribu\u00e9 au Royaume-Uni, mais il a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9voqu\u00e9 peu apr\u00e8s[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le probl\u00e8me est encore plus prononc\u00e9 en Autriche, o\u00f9 Vidino est membre du conseil consultatif de l'Observatoire de l'islam du gouvernement autrichien[51]<\/a>, au nom duquel il a r\u00e9dig\u00e9 un rapport visant \u00e0 obtenir l'ostracisme contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[52]<\/a>, et collabore activement avec les services secrets, pour lesquels il a aid\u00e9 \u00e0 produire une carte des associations et des lieux de culte musulmans dans le pays[53]<\/a>. Ses \u00e9crits contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont donn\u00e9 lieu \u00e0 une op\u00e9ration de police en novembre 2020, dont l'objectif \u00e9tait de d\u00e9sarmer ce que Vidino consid\u00e8re comme de dangereuses cellules terroristes[54]<\/a>, et qui n'a donn\u00e9 aucun r\u00e9sultat : malgr\u00e9 les efforts de centaines de policiers et la brutalit\u00e9 utilis\u00e9e, tous les accus\u00e9s se sont r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9s innocents[55]<\/a>. Un de ces cas typiques o\u00f9, comme le dit le dicton, la plume des \u00e9crivains tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e des soldats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tout cela devrait faire r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir les politiciens europ\u00e9ens : le scandale des pots-de-vin \u00e0 Bruxelles ne montre pas seulement la faiblesse du syst\u00e8me politique de l'Union, mais il met \u00e9galement en \u00e9vidence la mani\u00e8re tr\u00e8s dangereuse dont des pays \"dangereux\" comme les \u00c9mirats arabes unis et l'Arabie saoudite peuvent provoquer des actes de violence polici\u00e8re ou d'injustice criminelle dans certains \u00c9tats, \u00e0 commencer par l'Italie, la Su\u00e8de et l'Autriche - des nations dans lesquelles l'EFD et Vidino ont non seulement d'excellents contacts, mais occupent \u00e9galement des postes op\u00e9rationnels dans les ganglions les plus sensibles de l'administration publique. Personnellement, cela me conforte dans mon opinion : l'UE n'a pas d'alli\u00e9s - ni la Russie, ni la Chine, ni les pays arabes, ni m\u00eame (et presque personne ne le sait) les \u00c9tats-Unis d'Am\u00e9rique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

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His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Un autogolo comparable, pour ses effets de publicit\u00e9, \u00e0 l'invasion russe de l'Ukraine. Doha aura besoin de plusieurs ann\u00e9es pour faire oublier ce regrettable incident, et ses ennemis, \u00e0 Duba\u00ef et \u00e0 Riyad, feront tout pour qu'il ne soit pas oubli\u00e9. Mais cela ne suffit pas \u00e0 expliquer l'existence de ce lobby : l'extr\u00eame droite am\u00e9ricaine (c'est-\u00e0-dire celle qui est la plus li\u00e9e au fondamentalisme chr\u00e9tien) et l'extr\u00eame droite isra\u00e9lienne (celle qui est sioniste et qui, depuis des ann\u00e9es, est alli\u00e9e aux monarchies du Golfe Persique) soutiennent Vidino et d'autres influenceurs comme lui, parce qu'ils poussent \u00e0 la fin de la d\u00e9mocratie aux \u00c9tats-Unis : une t\u00e2che qui, il y a seulement vingt ans, aurait sembl\u00e9 bonne seulement pour une blague, et qui maintenant, apr\u00e8s l'attaque du Capitole le 6 janvier et la pr\u00e9sidence Trump, semble proche et possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Un jeune n\u00e9ocon est n\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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De gauche \u00e0 droite : Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, membre du personnel consultatif de la Commission europ\u00e9enne), John Duhig et Marwa Farid (EFD), trois des figures les plus influentes de la campagne m\u00e9diatique contre le Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dans l'\u00e9closion de nouvelles organisations d'extr\u00eame droite, li\u00e9es au nationalisme, \u00e0 la religion, ou simplement \u00e0 une vision mystique et antid\u00e9mocratique de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9, les \u00c9tats-Unis continuent d'\u00eatre le pays leader : celui qui inspire, influence et oblige le reste du monde \u00e0 suivre ses modes, ses caprices, ses erreurs. Les figures les plus marquantes de cette tendance sont des milliardaires comme Elon Musk, Peter Thiel et Donald Trump, mais autour d'eux fleurissent des personnages, comme Steve Bannon, qui se situent entre les th\u00e9oriciens d'un nouveau m\u00e9di\u00e9visme technocratique et les \u00e9p\u00e9es avec lesquelles les milliardaires pr\u00e9cit\u00e9s, en guerre les uns contre les autres, s'affrontent dans les journaux, sur le web et \u00e0 la t\u00e9l\u00e9vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino est l'un des plus importants d'entre eux : un expert des affaires du Moyen-Orient, qui se bat contre Elon Musk, contre les crypto-monnaies, contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[2]<\/a>. Ce sont des choses qui n'ont rien \u00e0 voir entre elles, mais l'une des caract\u00e9ristiques de cette nouvelle extr\u00eame droite est d'\u00eatre, comme les th\u00e9ories \u00e9nonc\u00e9es par Adolf Hitler, totalisante[3]<\/a>, et de pr\u00e9tendre expliquer le monde entier \u00e0 partir d'un seul postulat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'une des principales diff\u00e9rences entre ces nouveaux gourous et ceux (comme Hermann Schmitz) du nazisme est que l'ennemi n'est plus le juda\u00efsme, mais une fraction du monde arabe - celle repr\u00e9sent\u00e9e par les Fr\u00e8res musulmans, la Palestine, le printemps arabe, l'Iran et le Qatar : un chaudron de choses qui n'ont rien en commun les unes avec les autres[4]<\/a>. Un chaudron dans lequel Isra\u00ebl et le sionisme sont parfaitement \u00e0 l'aise, puisqu'ils font partie de l'\u00e9quipe men\u00e9e par les n\u00e9o-conservateurs de Donald Trump (qui ne repr\u00e9sentent qu'une fraction de l'extr\u00eame droite am\u00e9ricaine), le prince saoudien Bin Salman et le cheikh \u00e9mirati Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 \u00e0 Milan en 1977, Vidino a termin\u00e9 ses \u00e9tudes dans sa ville natale et a finalement obtenu l'une des sp\u00e9cialisations les plus exclusives au monde : celle de la Fletcher School de l'universit\u00e9 Tufts \u00e0 Medford (Massachussetts) [6]<\/a>, qui accueille chaque ann\u00e9e 230 \u00e9tudiants d'excellence mondiale et qui pr\u00e9pare depuis 90 ans des diplomates, des militaires et des lobbyistes pro-am\u00e9ricains travaillant au Moyen-Orient[7]<\/a>. Une \u00e9cole qui enseigne tous les maux possibles de la Russie de Poutine[8]<\/a> et la corruption dans le sport, en liant (\u00e0 juste titre, je pense) l'esprit de l'organisation des Jeux olympiques de Berlin de 1936 avec tant d'\u00e9v\u00e9nements sportifs de classe mondiale (\u00e0 commencer par la Coupe du monde en Argentine en 1978)[9]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00c0 la fin de ses \u00e9tudes, apr\u00e8s avoir \u00e9galement effectu\u00e9 une p\u00e9riode de formation dans le plus important lobby de l'industrie militaire am\u00e9ricaine (l'\u00e9cole de la RAND Corporation \u00e0 Arlington, en Virginie, au Pentagone[10]<\/a>), Vidino a choisi d'entrer \u00e0 la EFD (Fondation europ\u00e9enne pour la d\u00e9mocratie[11]<\/a>) pour y d\u00e9fendre les int\u00e9r\u00eats nationaux am\u00e9ricains : une organisation bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Bruxelles, active depuis 2005, qui finance la propagande (au sein du Parlement europ\u00e9en[12]<\/a>) des th\u00e8ses n\u00e9oconservatrices am\u00e9ricaines, selon lesquelles il existe de \"bons\" musulmans (Arabie, \u00c9gypte et \u00c9mirats) et de \"mauvais\" musulmans (les Fr\u00e8res musulmans et une liste d'organisations pacifistes li\u00e9es aux mouvements d\u00e9mocratiques dits du printemps arabe, actifs principalement en Angleterre, en Autriche et en Su\u00e8de) - qui, selon l'EFD, sont li\u00e9s au terrorisme fondamentaliste. Une th\u00e8se d\u00e9mentie par les faits, mais fonctionnelle \u00e0 l'alliance entre Isra\u00ebl, l'Arabie Saoudite et les Emirats contre tous les adversaires des monarchies du monde arabe[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une vid\u00e9oconf\u00e9rence de Jonathan Schanzer, l'un des principaux collaborateurs du pr\u00e9sident isra\u00e9lien Netanyahu, leader du FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'EFD est \u00e9galement financ\u00e9, depuis 2011, par des fonds provenant du budget de l'UE (environ 160 000 euros de contributions par an) et du gouvernement am\u00e9ricain (environ un demi-million de dollars) [15]<\/a>, et est dirig\u00e9 par Roberta Bonazzi, qui est \u00e9galement l'un des fondateurs de l'organisation[16]<\/a>. Mme Bonazzi, dont on sait qu'elle est \u00e0 la solde de plusieurs organisations d'extr\u00eame droite qui r\u00e9mun\u00e8rent l'EFD ou l'une de ses soci\u00e9t\u00e9s de conseil priv\u00e9es, comme Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, est c\u00e9l\u00e8bre pour son combat m\u00e9diatique contre le Hezbollah et sa tentative de lier cette organisation terroriste au mouvement de lib\u00e9ration de la Palestine et \u00e0 tous les jeunes musulmans qui luttent pour la d\u00e9mocratie dans le monde arabe[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'activit\u00e9 principale de M. Bonazzi consiste \u00e0 diriger la propagande politique pro-arabe et pro-am\u00e9ricaine dans plusieurs pays europ\u00e9ens, en premier lieu l'Arm\u00e9nie et l'Azerba\u00efdjan[19]<\/a>. Selon Bonazzi, derri\u00e8re ceux qui r\u00e9clament la d\u00e9mocratie, il n'y a pas le r\u00eave d'une g\u00e9n\u00e9ration d'Arabes qui veulent la fin du chauvinisme islamique radical, mais pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment son contraire : la th\u00e9ocratie iranienne, qui combat les monarchies du Golfe, les consid\u00e9rant (comme les Am\u00e9ricains l'aiment) comme modernes, libertaires et progressistes. En ce sens, Bonazzi travaille \u00e9troitement avec l'ambassadeur des \u00c9mirats \u00e0 Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, l'un des principaux collaborateurs de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, l'homme cl\u00e9 du pouvoir saoudien et \u00e9mirati dans le monde[22]<\/a>, marchand d'armes[23]<\/a> et ami et conseiller influent de Donald Trump sur les questions du Moyen-Orient[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En outre, l'EFD est \u00e9troitement li\u00e9 (sur le plan politique et organisationnel) \u00e0 la FDD (Fondation pour la d\u00e9fense des d\u00e9mocraties[25]<\/a>), qui, aux \u00c9tats-Unis, s'efforce d'obtenir des fonds pour l'EFD[26]<\/a>. Le FDD est l'une des organisations les plus radicales en faveur d'Isra\u00ebl et contre les pays arabes qui n'ont pas d'accord avec Tel Aviv, en premier lieu l'Iran[27]<\/a>. L'objectif du FDD est de pousser Washington, sur la base d'affirmations non fond\u00e9es (et souvent ouvertement fausses), \u00e0 mener des op\u00e9rations militaires en Syrie, en Iran, au Liban et dans d'autres pays du Moyen-Orient[28]<\/a>. Une th\u00e8se favorite des dirigeants du FDD consiste \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein et Oussama Ben Laden comme les dirigeants de la m\u00eame organisation terroriste responsable de l'attaque des tours jumelles \u00e0 New York le 11 septembre 2001 : le mouvement pour la lib\u00e9ration de la Palestine !!![29]<\/a>  Comme il est \u00e9vident, les dirigeants du FDD (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz et Jonathan Schanzer) sont des partisans ouverts de Donald Trump et de sa ligne sur les questions du Moyen-Orient[30]<\/a>. En 2009 d\u00e9j\u00e0, le FDD a vers\u00e9 pr\u00e8s d'un demi-million de dollars \u00e0 l'EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'inspiration de Breivik<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Le maniaque norv\u00e9gien Anders Behring Breivik se r\u00e9f\u00e8re \u00e0 Hitler pour expliquer le massacre qu'il a perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 en 2012, mais cite aussi les textes de Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entre-temps, Vidino est devenu un orateur politique populaire. Son ami Al Otaiba l'a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 au ministre des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res des EAU Abdullah Bin Zayed en 2017, apr\u00e8s que Vidino ait beaucoup travaill\u00e9 avec Quiller Consultants, le cabinet de lobbying bas\u00e9 \u00e0 Londres qui place des articles pro-Abu Dhabi dans la presse britannique[33]<\/a>. Dans le magazine trimestriel Middle East Quarterly, Vidino a affirm\u00e9 que \"l'Europe est devenue un incubateur de la pens\u00e9e et du d\u00e9veloppement politique islamistes\" : selon lui, les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont construit un \"vaste r\u00e9seau bien organis\u00e9 de mosqu\u00e9es, d'organisations caritatives et d'organisations islamiques\", dont le but serait d'\u00e9tendre le radicalisme islamique \u00e0 l'ensemble de l'Occident[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ces th\u00e8ses ne sont pas surprenantes. Son travail de lobbyiste \u00e0 l'EFD a conduit Vidino \u00e0 la prochaine \u00e9tape de sa carri\u00e8re : celle d'associ\u00e9 de TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, une agence d'\u00c9tat \u00e9miratie aux objectifs ambitieux : (a) analyser les menaces militaires, m\u00e9diatiques et cybern\u00e9tiques que repr\u00e9sentent les ennemis des monarchies du golfe Persique et impliquer les \u00c9tats-Unis dans les mesures visant \u00e0 r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 ces menaces ; b) d\u00e9signer et r\u00e9pertorier les adversaires des monarchies du golfe (d\u00e9finis tout court comme des \"terroristes\"), exercer des pressions diplomatiques pour qu'ils soient poursuivis, publier ce qu'il est possible de publier pour les discr\u00e9diter ; c) identifier, dans chaque pays, des alli\u00e9s possibles et les contacter ; d) identifier les personnes qui ont des int\u00e9r\u00eats dans les monarchies du golfe Persique et les contacter. d) pr\u00e9parer les \u00c9mirats \u00e0 un conflit militaire, en analysant ses co\u00fbts et ses avantages, et \u00e9valuer les \u00e9tapes n\u00e9cessaires pour s'assurer une place \u00e0 la table o\u00f9 sont distribu\u00e9s les lucratifs contrats de reconstruction ; e) financer des projets d'intelligence artificielle et de cybern\u00e9tique ayant des applications militaires utiles ; f) an\u00e9antir les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ; g) identifier des projets d'investissement \u00e9conomique et infrastructurel dans des pays pr\u00eats \u00e0 recevoir le message de l'islam tel qu'il est pratiqu\u00e9 dans le golfe Persique[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financ\u00e9 par le gotha militaire et p\u00e9trolier du Golfe Persique[37]<\/a>, est dirig\u00e9 par Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, qui a travaill\u00e9 pendant des ann\u00e9es comme conseiller acad\u00e9mique pour l'ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, fond\u00e9 en 1994 par Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan dans le but de justifier le r\u00e9armement massif des \u00c9mirats et aujourd'hui dirig\u00e9 par le chef des lobbyistes \u00e9miratis en Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi) [38]<\/a>. L'ECSSR travaille pour la Tawazun Holding de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. En ao\u00fbt 2017, Tawazun avait vers\u00e9 20 millions de dollars \u00e0 l'ECSSR, et l'ECSSR les a vers\u00e9s \u00e0 l'Institut du Moyen-Orient \u00e0 Washington : une association d'anciens militaires am\u00e9ricains, qui a \u00e0 son tour vers\u00e9 cette somme \u00e0 divers g\u00e9n\u00e9raux et politiciens pour donner un coup de fouet aux contrats militaires entre les \u00c9tats-Unis et les EAU[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire simple : TRENDS et ECSSR sont deux v\u00e9hicules utilis\u00e9s pour corrompre les politiciens et les militaires occidentaux, et Vidino s'emploie \u00e0 en sugg\u00e9rer de nouveaux[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, en tout cas, a \u00e9t\u00e9 impliqu\u00e9 dans plusieurs scandales de trafic d'armes[41]<\/a> et dans l'achat de logiciels espions particuli\u00e8rement pointus, de Pegasus \u00e0 DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. La diligence avec laquelle Vidino et ses coll\u00e8gues (issus d'associations li\u00e9es aux \u00c9mirats arabes unis) op\u00e8rent est telle que m\u00eame dans le golfe Persique, des voix se sont \u00e9lev\u00e9es pour demander la fin des mensonges, avant que ces th\u00e8ses, avanc\u00e9es par Vidino, ne deviennent l'arme d'un quelconque imprudent[43]<\/a>. Trop tard : les th\u00e8ses du lobbyiste milanais ont \u00e9t\u00e9 reprises par Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, le fou qui, en 2012, a tu\u00e9 77 personnes, dont 69 participants \u00e0 un camp d'\u00e9t\u00e9 de la Ligue de la jeunesse ouvri\u00e8re[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La STR-12, l'une des armes les plus avanc\u00e9es sur le plan technologique, a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e en 2012 \u00e0 Abu Dhabi gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une collaboration entre TRENDS Research et Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bien s\u00fbr, Vidino n'est pas responsable du massacre perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 par un psychopathe. Mais cela devrait \u00e9galement inciter \u00e0 la prudence dans l'utilisation des conseils du lobbyiste milanais. Le contraire est vrai : en Italie, par exemple, les services secrets l'ont port\u00e9 au poste de coordinateur de la Commission d'\u00e9tude sur la radicalisation et l'extr\u00e9misme djihadiste[47]<\/a>, qui existait pendant les ann\u00e9es des gouvernements dirig\u00e9s par Matteo Renzi et Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, et l'ont confirm\u00e9 dans l'actuelle Commission de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[49]<\/a>. Un poste dans lequel M. Vidino est en mesure d'influencer les d\u00e9cisions politiques en mati\u00e8re diplomatique et militaire, mais aussi de contr\u00f4ler les r\u00e9sidents musulmans individuels en Italie. Un poste similaire lui a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 attribu\u00e9 au Royaume-Uni, mais il a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9voqu\u00e9 peu apr\u00e8s[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le probl\u00e8me est encore plus prononc\u00e9 en Autriche, o\u00f9 Vidino est membre du conseil consultatif de l'Observatoire de l'islam du gouvernement autrichien[51]<\/a>, au nom duquel il a r\u00e9dig\u00e9 un rapport visant \u00e0 obtenir l'ostracisme contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[52]<\/a>, et collabore activement avec les services secrets, pour lesquels il a aid\u00e9 \u00e0 produire une carte des associations et des lieux de culte musulmans dans le pays[53]<\/a>. Ses \u00e9crits contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont donn\u00e9 lieu \u00e0 une op\u00e9ration de police en novembre 2020, dont l'objectif \u00e9tait de d\u00e9sarmer ce que Vidino consid\u00e8re comme de dangereuses cellules terroristes[54]<\/a>, et qui n'a donn\u00e9 aucun r\u00e9sultat : malgr\u00e9 les efforts de centaines de policiers et la brutalit\u00e9 utilis\u00e9e, tous les accus\u00e9s se sont r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9s innocents[55]<\/a>. Un de ces cas typiques o\u00f9, comme le dit le dicton, la plume des \u00e9crivains tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e des soldats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tout cela devrait faire r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir les politiciens europ\u00e9ens : le scandale des pots-de-vin \u00e0 Bruxelles ne montre pas seulement la faiblesse du syst\u00e8me politique de l'Union, mais il met \u00e9galement en \u00e9vidence la mani\u00e8re tr\u00e8s dangereuse dont des pays \"dangereux\" comme les \u00c9mirats arabes unis et l'Arabie saoudite peuvent provoquer des actes de violence polici\u00e8re ou d'injustice criminelle dans certains \u00c9tats, \u00e0 commencer par l'Italie, la Su\u00e8de et l'Autriche - des nations dans lesquelles l'EFD et Vidino ont non seulement d'excellents contacts, mais occupent \u00e9galement des postes op\u00e9rationnels dans les ganglions les plus sensibles de l'administration publique. Personnellement, cela me conforte dans mon opinion : l'UE n'a pas d'alli\u00e9s - ni la Russie, ni la Chine, ni les pays arabes, ni m\u00eame (et presque personne ne le sait) les \u00c9tats-Unis d'Am\u00e9rique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Le levier que Vidino utilise pour d\u00e9cha\u00eener le monde contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans, la Palestine et ceux qui les soutiennent est celui du lobbying. Quelqu'un le paie pour le faire, et ce quelqu'un est un gouvernement (ou plusieurs forces politiques) qui a r\u00e9ussi \u00e0 l'inscrire sur la liste des commentateurs politiques accr\u00e9dit\u00e9s et des lobbyistes officiels \u00e0 Bruxelles - la capitale de l'Union europ\u00e9enne, o\u00f9 la corruption r\u00e8gne en ma\u00eetre, o\u00f9 le contr\u00f4le est comparable \u00e0 z\u00e9ro, et o\u00f9 les effets des interventions pour la d\u00e9fense d'int\u00e9r\u00eats sans rapport avec ceux du peuple europ\u00e9en sont plus efficaces - comme l'a d\u00e9montr\u00e9 la campagne m\u00e9diatique li\u00e9e \u00e0 la Coupe du monde au Qatar et l'explosion simultan\u00e9e d'une violence sans pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent contre le peuple iranien : un tournoi, r\u00e9alis\u00e9 gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 la corruption, qui est devenu le plus grand auto-goal des m\u00e9dias d'\u00c9tat du nouveau si\u00e8cle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Un autogolo comparable, pour ses effets de publicit\u00e9, \u00e0 l'invasion russe de l'Ukraine. Doha aura besoin de plusieurs ann\u00e9es pour faire oublier ce regrettable incident, et ses ennemis, \u00e0 Duba\u00ef et \u00e0 Riyad, feront tout pour qu'il ne soit pas oubli\u00e9. Mais cela ne suffit pas \u00e0 expliquer l'existence de ce lobby : l'extr\u00eame droite am\u00e9ricaine (c'est-\u00e0-dire celle qui est la plus li\u00e9e au fondamentalisme chr\u00e9tien) et l'extr\u00eame droite isra\u00e9lienne (celle qui est sioniste et qui, depuis des ann\u00e9es, est alli\u00e9e aux monarchies du Golfe Persique) soutiennent Vidino et d'autres influenceurs comme lui, parce qu'ils poussent \u00e0 la fin de la d\u00e9mocratie aux \u00c9tats-Unis : une t\u00e2che qui, il y a seulement vingt ans, aurait sembl\u00e9 bonne seulement pour une blague, et qui maintenant, apr\u00e8s l'attaque du Capitole le 6 janvier et la pr\u00e9sidence Trump, semble proche et possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Un jeune n\u00e9ocon est n\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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De gauche \u00e0 droite : Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, membre du personnel consultatif de la Commission europ\u00e9enne), John Duhig et Marwa Farid (EFD), trois des figures les plus influentes de la campagne m\u00e9diatique contre le Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dans l'\u00e9closion de nouvelles organisations d'extr\u00eame droite, li\u00e9es au nationalisme, \u00e0 la religion, ou simplement \u00e0 une vision mystique et antid\u00e9mocratique de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9, les \u00c9tats-Unis continuent d'\u00eatre le pays leader : celui qui inspire, influence et oblige le reste du monde \u00e0 suivre ses modes, ses caprices, ses erreurs. Les figures les plus marquantes de cette tendance sont des milliardaires comme Elon Musk, Peter Thiel et Donald Trump, mais autour d'eux fleurissent des personnages, comme Steve Bannon, qui se situent entre les th\u00e9oriciens d'un nouveau m\u00e9di\u00e9visme technocratique et les \u00e9p\u00e9es avec lesquelles les milliardaires pr\u00e9cit\u00e9s, en guerre les uns contre les autres, s'affrontent dans les journaux, sur le web et \u00e0 la t\u00e9l\u00e9vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino est l'un des plus importants d'entre eux : un expert des affaires du Moyen-Orient, qui se bat contre Elon Musk, contre les crypto-monnaies, contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[2]<\/a>. Ce sont des choses qui n'ont rien \u00e0 voir entre elles, mais l'une des caract\u00e9ristiques de cette nouvelle extr\u00eame droite est d'\u00eatre, comme les th\u00e9ories \u00e9nonc\u00e9es par Adolf Hitler, totalisante[3]<\/a>, et de pr\u00e9tendre expliquer le monde entier \u00e0 partir d'un seul postulat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'une des principales diff\u00e9rences entre ces nouveaux gourous et ceux (comme Hermann Schmitz) du nazisme est que l'ennemi n'est plus le juda\u00efsme, mais une fraction du monde arabe - celle repr\u00e9sent\u00e9e par les Fr\u00e8res musulmans, la Palestine, le printemps arabe, l'Iran et le Qatar : un chaudron de choses qui n'ont rien en commun les unes avec les autres[4]<\/a>. Un chaudron dans lequel Isra\u00ebl et le sionisme sont parfaitement \u00e0 l'aise, puisqu'ils font partie de l'\u00e9quipe men\u00e9e par les n\u00e9o-conservateurs de Donald Trump (qui ne repr\u00e9sentent qu'une fraction de l'extr\u00eame droite am\u00e9ricaine), le prince saoudien Bin Salman et le cheikh \u00e9mirati Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 \u00e0 Milan en 1977, Vidino a termin\u00e9 ses \u00e9tudes dans sa ville natale et a finalement obtenu l'une des sp\u00e9cialisations les plus exclusives au monde : celle de la Fletcher School de l'universit\u00e9 Tufts \u00e0 Medford (Massachussetts) [6]<\/a>, qui accueille chaque ann\u00e9e 230 \u00e9tudiants d'excellence mondiale et qui pr\u00e9pare depuis 90 ans des diplomates, des militaires et des lobbyistes pro-am\u00e9ricains travaillant au Moyen-Orient[7]<\/a>. Une \u00e9cole qui enseigne tous les maux possibles de la Russie de Poutine[8]<\/a> et la corruption dans le sport, en liant (\u00e0 juste titre, je pense) l'esprit de l'organisation des Jeux olympiques de Berlin de 1936 avec tant d'\u00e9v\u00e9nements sportifs de classe mondiale (\u00e0 commencer par la Coupe du monde en Argentine en 1978)[9]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00c0 la fin de ses \u00e9tudes, apr\u00e8s avoir \u00e9galement effectu\u00e9 une p\u00e9riode de formation dans le plus important lobby de l'industrie militaire am\u00e9ricaine (l'\u00e9cole de la RAND Corporation \u00e0 Arlington, en Virginie, au Pentagone[10]<\/a>), Vidino a choisi d'entrer \u00e0 la EFD (Fondation europ\u00e9enne pour la d\u00e9mocratie[11]<\/a>) pour y d\u00e9fendre les int\u00e9r\u00eats nationaux am\u00e9ricains : une organisation bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Bruxelles, active depuis 2005, qui finance la propagande (au sein du Parlement europ\u00e9en[12]<\/a>) des th\u00e8ses n\u00e9oconservatrices am\u00e9ricaines, selon lesquelles il existe de \"bons\" musulmans (Arabie, \u00c9gypte et \u00c9mirats) et de \"mauvais\" musulmans (les Fr\u00e8res musulmans et une liste d'organisations pacifistes li\u00e9es aux mouvements d\u00e9mocratiques dits du printemps arabe, actifs principalement en Angleterre, en Autriche et en Su\u00e8de) - qui, selon l'EFD, sont li\u00e9s au terrorisme fondamentaliste. Une th\u00e8se d\u00e9mentie par les faits, mais fonctionnelle \u00e0 l'alliance entre Isra\u00ebl, l'Arabie Saoudite et les Emirats contre tous les adversaires des monarchies du monde arabe[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une vid\u00e9oconf\u00e9rence de Jonathan Schanzer, l'un des principaux collaborateurs du pr\u00e9sident isra\u00e9lien Netanyahu, leader du FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'EFD est \u00e9galement financ\u00e9, depuis 2011, par des fonds provenant du budget de l'UE (environ 160 000 euros de contributions par an) et du gouvernement am\u00e9ricain (environ un demi-million de dollars) [15]<\/a>, et est dirig\u00e9 par Roberta Bonazzi, qui est \u00e9galement l'un des fondateurs de l'organisation[16]<\/a>. Mme Bonazzi, dont on sait qu'elle est \u00e0 la solde de plusieurs organisations d'extr\u00eame droite qui r\u00e9mun\u00e8rent l'EFD ou l'une de ses soci\u00e9t\u00e9s de conseil priv\u00e9es, comme Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, est c\u00e9l\u00e8bre pour son combat m\u00e9diatique contre le Hezbollah et sa tentative de lier cette organisation terroriste au mouvement de lib\u00e9ration de la Palestine et \u00e0 tous les jeunes musulmans qui luttent pour la d\u00e9mocratie dans le monde arabe[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'activit\u00e9 principale de M. Bonazzi consiste \u00e0 diriger la propagande politique pro-arabe et pro-am\u00e9ricaine dans plusieurs pays europ\u00e9ens, en premier lieu l'Arm\u00e9nie et l'Azerba\u00efdjan[19]<\/a>. Selon Bonazzi, derri\u00e8re ceux qui r\u00e9clament la d\u00e9mocratie, il n'y a pas le r\u00eave d'une g\u00e9n\u00e9ration d'Arabes qui veulent la fin du chauvinisme islamique radical, mais pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment son contraire : la th\u00e9ocratie iranienne, qui combat les monarchies du Golfe, les consid\u00e9rant (comme les Am\u00e9ricains l'aiment) comme modernes, libertaires et progressistes. En ce sens, Bonazzi travaille \u00e9troitement avec l'ambassadeur des \u00c9mirats \u00e0 Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, l'un des principaux collaborateurs de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, l'homme cl\u00e9 du pouvoir saoudien et \u00e9mirati dans le monde[22]<\/a>, marchand d'armes[23]<\/a> et ami et conseiller influent de Donald Trump sur les questions du Moyen-Orient[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En outre, l'EFD est \u00e9troitement li\u00e9 (sur le plan politique et organisationnel) \u00e0 la FDD (Fondation pour la d\u00e9fense des d\u00e9mocraties[25]<\/a>), qui, aux \u00c9tats-Unis, s'efforce d'obtenir des fonds pour l'EFD[26]<\/a>. Le FDD est l'une des organisations les plus radicales en faveur d'Isra\u00ebl et contre les pays arabes qui n'ont pas d'accord avec Tel Aviv, en premier lieu l'Iran[27]<\/a>. L'objectif du FDD est de pousser Washington, sur la base d'affirmations non fond\u00e9es (et souvent ouvertement fausses), \u00e0 mener des op\u00e9rations militaires en Syrie, en Iran, au Liban et dans d'autres pays du Moyen-Orient[28]<\/a>. Une th\u00e8se favorite des dirigeants du FDD consiste \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein et Oussama Ben Laden comme les dirigeants de la m\u00eame organisation terroriste responsable de l'attaque des tours jumelles \u00e0 New York le 11 septembre 2001 : le mouvement pour la lib\u00e9ration de la Palestine !!![29]<\/a>  Comme il est \u00e9vident, les dirigeants du FDD (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz et Jonathan Schanzer) sont des partisans ouverts de Donald Trump et de sa ligne sur les questions du Moyen-Orient[30]<\/a>. En 2009 d\u00e9j\u00e0, le FDD a vers\u00e9 pr\u00e8s d'un demi-million de dollars \u00e0 l'EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'inspiration de Breivik<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Le maniaque norv\u00e9gien Anders Behring Breivik se r\u00e9f\u00e8re \u00e0 Hitler pour expliquer le massacre qu'il a perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 en 2012, mais cite aussi les textes de Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entre-temps, Vidino est devenu un orateur politique populaire. Son ami Al Otaiba l'a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 au ministre des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res des EAU Abdullah Bin Zayed en 2017, apr\u00e8s que Vidino ait beaucoup travaill\u00e9 avec Quiller Consultants, le cabinet de lobbying bas\u00e9 \u00e0 Londres qui place des articles pro-Abu Dhabi dans la presse britannique[33]<\/a>. Dans le magazine trimestriel Middle East Quarterly, Vidino a affirm\u00e9 que \"l'Europe est devenue un incubateur de la pens\u00e9e et du d\u00e9veloppement politique islamistes\" : selon lui, les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont construit un \"vaste r\u00e9seau bien organis\u00e9 de mosqu\u00e9es, d'organisations caritatives et d'organisations islamiques\", dont le but serait d'\u00e9tendre le radicalisme islamique \u00e0 l'ensemble de l'Occident[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ces th\u00e8ses ne sont pas surprenantes. Son travail de lobbyiste \u00e0 l'EFD a conduit Vidino \u00e0 la prochaine \u00e9tape de sa carri\u00e8re : celle d'associ\u00e9 de TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, une agence d'\u00c9tat \u00e9miratie aux objectifs ambitieux : (a) analyser les menaces militaires, m\u00e9diatiques et cybern\u00e9tiques que repr\u00e9sentent les ennemis des monarchies du golfe Persique et impliquer les \u00c9tats-Unis dans les mesures visant \u00e0 r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 ces menaces ; b) d\u00e9signer et r\u00e9pertorier les adversaires des monarchies du golfe (d\u00e9finis tout court comme des \"terroristes\"), exercer des pressions diplomatiques pour qu'ils soient poursuivis, publier ce qu'il est possible de publier pour les discr\u00e9diter ; c) identifier, dans chaque pays, des alli\u00e9s possibles et les contacter ; d) identifier les personnes qui ont des int\u00e9r\u00eats dans les monarchies du golfe Persique et les contacter. d) pr\u00e9parer les \u00c9mirats \u00e0 un conflit militaire, en analysant ses co\u00fbts et ses avantages, et \u00e9valuer les \u00e9tapes n\u00e9cessaires pour s'assurer une place \u00e0 la table o\u00f9 sont distribu\u00e9s les lucratifs contrats de reconstruction ; e) financer des projets d'intelligence artificielle et de cybern\u00e9tique ayant des applications militaires utiles ; f) an\u00e9antir les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ; g) identifier des projets d'investissement \u00e9conomique et infrastructurel dans des pays pr\u00eats \u00e0 recevoir le message de l'islam tel qu'il est pratiqu\u00e9 dans le golfe Persique[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financ\u00e9 par le gotha militaire et p\u00e9trolier du Golfe Persique[37]<\/a>, est dirig\u00e9 par Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, qui a travaill\u00e9 pendant des ann\u00e9es comme conseiller acad\u00e9mique pour l'ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, fond\u00e9 en 1994 par Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan dans le but de justifier le r\u00e9armement massif des \u00c9mirats et aujourd'hui dirig\u00e9 par le chef des lobbyistes \u00e9miratis en Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi) [38]<\/a>. L'ECSSR travaille pour la Tawazun Holding de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. En ao\u00fbt 2017, Tawazun avait vers\u00e9 20 millions de dollars \u00e0 l'ECSSR, et l'ECSSR les a vers\u00e9s \u00e0 l'Institut du Moyen-Orient \u00e0 Washington : une association d'anciens militaires am\u00e9ricains, qui a \u00e0 son tour vers\u00e9 cette somme \u00e0 divers g\u00e9n\u00e9raux et politiciens pour donner un coup de fouet aux contrats militaires entre les \u00c9tats-Unis et les EAU[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire simple : TRENDS et ECSSR sont deux v\u00e9hicules utilis\u00e9s pour corrompre les politiciens et les militaires occidentaux, et Vidino s'emploie \u00e0 en sugg\u00e9rer de nouveaux[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, en tout cas, a \u00e9t\u00e9 impliqu\u00e9 dans plusieurs scandales de trafic d'armes[41]<\/a> et dans l'achat de logiciels espions particuli\u00e8rement pointus, de Pegasus \u00e0 DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. La diligence avec laquelle Vidino et ses coll\u00e8gues (issus d'associations li\u00e9es aux \u00c9mirats arabes unis) op\u00e8rent est telle que m\u00eame dans le golfe Persique, des voix se sont \u00e9lev\u00e9es pour demander la fin des mensonges, avant que ces th\u00e8ses, avanc\u00e9es par Vidino, ne deviennent l'arme d'un quelconque imprudent[43]<\/a>. Trop tard : les th\u00e8ses du lobbyiste milanais ont \u00e9t\u00e9 reprises par Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, le fou qui, en 2012, a tu\u00e9 77 personnes, dont 69 participants \u00e0 un camp d'\u00e9t\u00e9 de la Ligue de la jeunesse ouvri\u00e8re[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La STR-12, l'une des armes les plus avanc\u00e9es sur le plan technologique, a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e en 2012 \u00e0 Abu Dhabi gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une collaboration entre TRENDS Research et Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bien s\u00fbr, Vidino n'est pas responsable du massacre perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 par un psychopathe. Mais cela devrait \u00e9galement inciter \u00e0 la prudence dans l'utilisation des conseils du lobbyiste milanais. Le contraire est vrai : en Italie, par exemple, les services secrets l'ont port\u00e9 au poste de coordinateur de la Commission d'\u00e9tude sur la radicalisation et l'extr\u00e9misme djihadiste[47]<\/a>, qui existait pendant les ann\u00e9es des gouvernements dirig\u00e9s par Matteo Renzi et Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, et l'ont confirm\u00e9 dans l'actuelle Commission de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[49]<\/a>. Un poste dans lequel M. Vidino est en mesure d'influencer les d\u00e9cisions politiques en mati\u00e8re diplomatique et militaire, mais aussi de contr\u00f4ler les r\u00e9sidents musulmans individuels en Italie. Un poste similaire lui a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 attribu\u00e9 au Royaume-Uni, mais il a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9voqu\u00e9 peu apr\u00e8s[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le probl\u00e8me est encore plus prononc\u00e9 en Autriche, o\u00f9 Vidino est membre du conseil consultatif de l'Observatoire de l'islam du gouvernement autrichien[51]<\/a>, au nom duquel il a r\u00e9dig\u00e9 un rapport visant \u00e0 obtenir l'ostracisme contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[52]<\/a>, et collabore activement avec les services secrets, pour lesquels il a aid\u00e9 \u00e0 produire une carte des associations et des lieux de culte musulmans dans le pays[53]<\/a>. Ses \u00e9crits contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont donn\u00e9 lieu \u00e0 une op\u00e9ration de police en novembre 2020, dont l'objectif \u00e9tait de d\u00e9sarmer ce que Vidino consid\u00e8re comme de dangereuses cellules terroristes[54]<\/a>, et qui n'a donn\u00e9 aucun r\u00e9sultat : malgr\u00e9 les efforts de centaines de policiers et la brutalit\u00e9 utilis\u00e9e, tous les accus\u00e9s se sont r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9s innocents[55]<\/a>. Un de ces cas typiques o\u00f9, comme le dit le dicton, la plume des \u00e9crivains tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e des soldats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tout cela devrait faire r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir les politiciens europ\u00e9ens : le scandale des pots-de-vin \u00e0 Bruxelles ne montre pas seulement la faiblesse du syst\u00e8me politique de l'Union, mais il met \u00e9galement en \u00e9vidence la mani\u00e8re tr\u00e8s dangereuse dont des pays \"dangereux\" comme les \u00c9mirats arabes unis et l'Arabie saoudite peuvent provoquer des actes de violence polici\u00e8re ou d'injustice criminelle dans certains \u00c9tats, \u00e0 commencer par l'Italie, la Su\u00e8de et l'Autriche - des nations dans lesquelles l'EFD et Vidino ont non seulement d'excellents contacts, mais occupent \u00e9galement des postes op\u00e9rationnels dans les ganglions les plus sensibles de l'administration publique. Personnellement, cela me conforte dans mon opinion : l'UE n'a pas d'alli\u00e9s - ni la Russie, ni la Chine, ni les pays arabes, ni m\u00eame (et presque personne ne le sait) les \u00c9tats-Unis d'Am\u00e9rique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

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His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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C'est une affirmation qui, si elle n'avait pas de puissants partisans et des effets tragiques, serait risible. Les d\u00e9mocrates et les personnes tol\u00e9rantes ne sont pas l\u00e9gion dans le monde musulman, mais les professionnels comme Vidino ont pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : puisque la th\u00e9ocratie iranienne est, objectivement, un enfer, un r\u00e9gime m\u00e9di\u00e9val barbare et sanguinaire, la meilleure fa\u00e7on de discr\u00e9diter les pacifistes et les victimes de pers\u00e9cutions ethniques est de pr\u00e9tendre que les victimes sont des alli\u00e9s de T\u00e9h\u00e9ran, et qu'elles m\u00e9ritent donc d'\u00eatre punies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le levier que Vidino utilise pour d\u00e9cha\u00eener le monde contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans, la Palestine et ceux qui les soutiennent est celui du lobbying. Quelqu'un le paie pour le faire, et ce quelqu'un est un gouvernement (ou plusieurs forces politiques) qui a r\u00e9ussi \u00e0 l'inscrire sur la liste des commentateurs politiques accr\u00e9dit\u00e9s et des lobbyistes officiels \u00e0 Bruxelles - la capitale de l'Union europ\u00e9enne, o\u00f9 la corruption r\u00e8gne en ma\u00eetre, o\u00f9 le contr\u00f4le est comparable \u00e0 z\u00e9ro, et o\u00f9 les effets des interventions pour la d\u00e9fense d'int\u00e9r\u00eats sans rapport avec ceux du peuple europ\u00e9en sont plus efficaces - comme l'a d\u00e9montr\u00e9 la campagne m\u00e9diatique li\u00e9e \u00e0 la Coupe du monde au Qatar et l'explosion simultan\u00e9e d'une violence sans pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent contre le peuple iranien : un tournoi, r\u00e9alis\u00e9 gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 la corruption, qui est devenu le plus grand auto-goal des m\u00e9dias d'\u00c9tat du nouveau si\u00e8cle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Un autogolo comparable, pour ses effets de publicit\u00e9, \u00e0 l'invasion russe de l'Ukraine. Doha aura besoin de plusieurs ann\u00e9es pour faire oublier ce regrettable incident, et ses ennemis, \u00e0 Duba\u00ef et \u00e0 Riyad, feront tout pour qu'il ne soit pas oubli\u00e9. Mais cela ne suffit pas \u00e0 expliquer l'existence de ce lobby : l'extr\u00eame droite am\u00e9ricaine (c'est-\u00e0-dire celle qui est la plus li\u00e9e au fondamentalisme chr\u00e9tien) et l'extr\u00eame droite isra\u00e9lienne (celle qui est sioniste et qui, depuis des ann\u00e9es, est alli\u00e9e aux monarchies du Golfe Persique) soutiennent Vidino et d'autres influenceurs comme lui, parce qu'ils poussent \u00e0 la fin de la d\u00e9mocratie aux \u00c9tats-Unis : une t\u00e2che qui, il y a seulement vingt ans, aurait sembl\u00e9 bonne seulement pour une blague, et qui maintenant, apr\u00e8s l'attaque du Capitole le 6 janvier et la pr\u00e9sidence Trump, semble proche et possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Un jeune n\u00e9ocon est n\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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De gauche \u00e0 droite : Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, membre du personnel consultatif de la Commission europ\u00e9enne), John Duhig et Marwa Farid (EFD), trois des figures les plus influentes de la campagne m\u00e9diatique contre le Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dans l'\u00e9closion de nouvelles organisations d'extr\u00eame droite, li\u00e9es au nationalisme, \u00e0 la religion, ou simplement \u00e0 une vision mystique et antid\u00e9mocratique de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9, les \u00c9tats-Unis continuent d'\u00eatre le pays leader : celui qui inspire, influence et oblige le reste du monde \u00e0 suivre ses modes, ses caprices, ses erreurs. Les figures les plus marquantes de cette tendance sont des milliardaires comme Elon Musk, Peter Thiel et Donald Trump, mais autour d'eux fleurissent des personnages, comme Steve Bannon, qui se situent entre les th\u00e9oriciens d'un nouveau m\u00e9di\u00e9visme technocratique et les \u00e9p\u00e9es avec lesquelles les milliardaires pr\u00e9cit\u00e9s, en guerre les uns contre les autres, s'affrontent dans les journaux, sur le web et \u00e0 la t\u00e9l\u00e9vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino est l'un des plus importants d'entre eux : un expert des affaires du Moyen-Orient, qui se bat contre Elon Musk, contre les crypto-monnaies, contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[2]<\/a>. Ce sont des choses qui n'ont rien \u00e0 voir entre elles, mais l'une des caract\u00e9ristiques de cette nouvelle extr\u00eame droite est d'\u00eatre, comme les th\u00e9ories \u00e9nonc\u00e9es par Adolf Hitler, totalisante[3]<\/a>, et de pr\u00e9tendre expliquer le monde entier \u00e0 partir d'un seul postulat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'une des principales diff\u00e9rences entre ces nouveaux gourous et ceux (comme Hermann Schmitz) du nazisme est que l'ennemi n'est plus le juda\u00efsme, mais une fraction du monde arabe - celle repr\u00e9sent\u00e9e par les Fr\u00e8res musulmans, la Palestine, le printemps arabe, l'Iran et le Qatar : un chaudron de choses qui n'ont rien en commun les unes avec les autres[4]<\/a>. Un chaudron dans lequel Isra\u00ebl et le sionisme sont parfaitement \u00e0 l'aise, puisqu'ils font partie de l'\u00e9quipe men\u00e9e par les n\u00e9o-conservateurs de Donald Trump (qui ne repr\u00e9sentent qu'une fraction de l'extr\u00eame droite am\u00e9ricaine), le prince saoudien Bin Salman et le cheikh \u00e9mirati Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 \u00e0 Milan en 1977, Vidino a termin\u00e9 ses \u00e9tudes dans sa ville natale et a finalement obtenu l'une des sp\u00e9cialisations les plus exclusives au monde : celle de la Fletcher School de l'universit\u00e9 Tufts \u00e0 Medford (Massachussetts) [6]<\/a>, qui accueille chaque ann\u00e9e 230 \u00e9tudiants d'excellence mondiale et qui pr\u00e9pare depuis 90 ans des diplomates, des militaires et des lobbyistes pro-am\u00e9ricains travaillant au Moyen-Orient[7]<\/a>. Une \u00e9cole qui enseigne tous les maux possibles de la Russie de Poutine[8]<\/a> et la corruption dans le sport, en liant (\u00e0 juste titre, je pense) l'esprit de l'organisation des Jeux olympiques de Berlin de 1936 avec tant d'\u00e9v\u00e9nements sportifs de classe mondiale (\u00e0 commencer par la Coupe du monde en Argentine en 1978)[9]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00c0 la fin de ses \u00e9tudes, apr\u00e8s avoir \u00e9galement effectu\u00e9 une p\u00e9riode de formation dans le plus important lobby de l'industrie militaire am\u00e9ricaine (l'\u00e9cole de la RAND Corporation \u00e0 Arlington, en Virginie, au Pentagone[10]<\/a>), Vidino a choisi d'entrer \u00e0 la EFD (Fondation europ\u00e9enne pour la d\u00e9mocratie[11]<\/a>) pour y d\u00e9fendre les int\u00e9r\u00eats nationaux am\u00e9ricains : une organisation bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Bruxelles, active depuis 2005, qui finance la propagande (au sein du Parlement europ\u00e9en[12]<\/a>) des th\u00e8ses n\u00e9oconservatrices am\u00e9ricaines, selon lesquelles il existe de \"bons\" musulmans (Arabie, \u00c9gypte et \u00c9mirats) et de \"mauvais\" musulmans (les Fr\u00e8res musulmans et une liste d'organisations pacifistes li\u00e9es aux mouvements d\u00e9mocratiques dits du printemps arabe, actifs principalement en Angleterre, en Autriche et en Su\u00e8de) - qui, selon l'EFD, sont li\u00e9s au terrorisme fondamentaliste. Une th\u00e8se d\u00e9mentie par les faits, mais fonctionnelle \u00e0 l'alliance entre Isra\u00ebl, l'Arabie Saoudite et les Emirats contre tous les adversaires des monarchies du monde arabe[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une vid\u00e9oconf\u00e9rence de Jonathan Schanzer, l'un des principaux collaborateurs du pr\u00e9sident isra\u00e9lien Netanyahu, leader du FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'EFD est \u00e9galement financ\u00e9, depuis 2011, par des fonds provenant du budget de l'UE (environ 160 000 euros de contributions par an) et du gouvernement am\u00e9ricain (environ un demi-million de dollars) [15]<\/a>, et est dirig\u00e9 par Roberta Bonazzi, qui est \u00e9galement l'un des fondateurs de l'organisation[16]<\/a>. Mme Bonazzi, dont on sait qu'elle est \u00e0 la solde de plusieurs organisations d'extr\u00eame droite qui r\u00e9mun\u00e8rent l'EFD ou l'une de ses soci\u00e9t\u00e9s de conseil priv\u00e9es, comme Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, est c\u00e9l\u00e8bre pour son combat m\u00e9diatique contre le Hezbollah et sa tentative de lier cette organisation terroriste au mouvement de lib\u00e9ration de la Palestine et \u00e0 tous les jeunes musulmans qui luttent pour la d\u00e9mocratie dans le monde arabe[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'activit\u00e9 principale de M. Bonazzi consiste \u00e0 diriger la propagande politique pro-arabe et pro-am\u00e9ricaine dans plusieurs pays europ\u00e9ens, en premier lieu l'Arm\u00e9nie et l'Azerba\u00efdjan[19]<\/a>. Selon Bonazzi, derri\u00e8re ceux qui r\u00e9clament la d\u00e9mocratie, il n'y a pas le r\u00eave d'une g\u00e9n\u00e9ration d'Arabes qui veulent la fin du chauvinisme islamique radical, mais pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment son contraire : la th\u00e9ocratie iranienne, qui combat les monarchies du Golfe, les consid\u00e9rant (comme les Am\u00e9ricains l'aiment) comme modernes, libertaires et progressistes. En ce sens, Bonazzi travaille \u00e9troitement avec l'ambassadeur des \u00c9mirats \u00e0 Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, l'un des principaux collaborateurs de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, l'homme cl\u00e9 du pouvoir saoudien et \u00e9mirati dans le monde[22]<\/a>, marchand d'armes[23]<\/a> et ami et conseiller influent de Donald Trump sur les questions du Moyen-Orient[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En outre, l'EFD est \u00e9troitement li\u00e9 (sur le plan politique et organisationnel) \u00e0 la FDD (Fondation pour la d\u00e9fense des d\u00e9mocraties[25]<\/a>), qui, aux \u00c9tats-Unis, s'efforce d'obtenir des fonds pour l'EFD[26]<\/a>. Le FDD est l'une des organisations les plus radicales en faveur d'Isra\u00ebl et contre les pays arabes qui n'ont pas d'accord avec Tel Aviv, en premier lieu l'Iran[27]<\/a>. L'objectif du FDD est de pousser Washington, sur la base d'affirmations non fond\u00e9es (et souvent ouvertement fausses), \u00e0 mener des op\u00e9rations militaires en Syrie, en Iran, au Liban et dans d'autres pays du Moyen-Orient[28]<\/a>. Une th\u00e8se favorite des dirigeants du FDD consiste \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein et Oussama Ben Laden comme les dirigeants de la m\u00eame organisation terroriste responsable de l'attaque des tours jumelles \u00e0 New York le 11 septembre 2001 : le mouvement pour la lib\u00e9ration de la Palestine !!![29]<\/a>  Comme il est \u00e9vident, les dirigeants du FDD (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz et Jonathan Schanzer) sont des partisans ouverts de Donald Trump et de sa ligne sur les questions du Moyen-Orient[30]<\/a>. En 2009 d\u00e9j\u00e0, le FDD a vers\u00e9 pr\u00e8s d'un demi-million de dollars \u00e0 l'EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'inspiration de Breivik<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Le maniaque norv\u00e9gien Anders Behring Breivik se r\u00e9f\u00e8re \u00e0 Hitler pour expliquer le massacre qu'il a perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 en 2012, mais cite aussi les textes de Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entre-temps, Vidino est devenu un orateur politique populaire. Son ami Al Otaiba l'a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 au ministre des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res des EAU Abdullah Bin Zayed en 2017, apr\u00e8s que Vidino ait beaucoup travaill\u00e9 avec Quiller Consultants, le cabinet de lobbying bas\u00e9 \u00e0 Londres qui place des articles pro-Abu Dhabi dans la presse britannique[33]<\/a>. Dans le magazine trimestriel Middle East Quarterly, Vidino a affirm\u00e9 que \"l'Europe est devenue un incubateur de la pens\u00e9e et du d\u00e9veloppement politique islamistes\" : selon lui, les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont construit un \"vaste r\u00e9seau bien organis\u00e9 de mosqu\u00e9es, d'organisations caritatives et d'organisations islamiques\", dont le but serait d'\u00e9tendre le radicalisme islamique \u00e0 l'ensemble de l'Occident[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ces th\u00e8ses ne sont pas surprenantes. Son travail de lobbyiste \u00e0 l'EFD a conduit Vidino \u00e0 la prochaine \u00e9tape de sa carri\u00e8re : celle d'associ\u00e9 de TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, une agence d'\u00c9tat \u00e9miratie aux objectifs ambitieux : (a) analyser les menaces militaires, m\u00e9diatiques et cybern\u00e9tiques que repr\u00e9sentent les ennemis des monarchies du golfe Persique et impliquer les \u00c9tats-Unis dans les mesures visant \u00e0 r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 ces menaces ; b) d\u00e9signer et r\u00e9pertorier les adversaires des monarchies du golfe (d\u00e9finis tout court comme des \"terroristes\"), exercer des pressions diplomatiques pour qu'ils soient poursuivis, publier ce qu'il est possible de publier pour les discr\u00e9diter ; c) identifier, dans chaque pays, des alli\u00e9s possibles et les contacter ; d) identifier les personnes qui ont des int\u00e9r\u00eats dans les monarchies du golfe Persique et les contacter. d) pr\u00e9parer les \u00c9mirats \u00e0 un conflit militaire, en analysant ses co\u00fbts et ses avantages, et \u00e9valuer les \u00e9tapes n\u00e9cessaires pour s'assurer une place \u00e0 la table o\u00f9 sont distribu\u00e9s les lucratifs contrats de reconstruction ; e) financer des projets d'intelligence artificielle et de cybern\u00e9tique ayant des applications militaires utiles ; f) an\u00e9antir les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ; g) identifier des projets d'investissement \u00e9conomique et infrastructurel dans des pays pr\u00eats \u00e0 recevoir le message de l'islam tel qu'il est pratiqu\u00e9 dans le golfe Persique[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financ\u00e9 par le gotha militaire et p\u00e9trolier du Golfe Persique[37]<\/a>, est dirig\u00e9 par Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, qui a travaill\u00e9 pendant des ann\u00e9es comme conseiller acad\u00e9mique pour l'ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, fond\u00e9 en 1994 par Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan dans le but de justifier le r\u00e9armement massif des \u00c9mirats et aujourd'hui dirig\u00e9 par le chef des lobbyistes \u00e9miratis en Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi) [38]<\/a>. L'ECSSR travaille pour la Tawazun Holding de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. En ao\u00fbt 2017, Tawazun avait vers\u00e9 20 millions de dollars \u00e0 l'ECSSR, et l'ECSSR les a vers\u00e9s \u00e0 l'Institut du Moyen-Orient \u00e0 Washington : une association d'anciens militaires am\u00e9ricains, qui a \u00e0 son tour vers\u00e9 cette somme \u00e0 divers g\u00e9n\u00e9raux et politiciens pour donner un coup de fouet aux contrats militaires entre les \u00c9tats-Unis et les EAU[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire simple : TRENDS et ECSSR sont deux v\u00e9hicules utilis\u00e9s pour corrompre les politiciens et les militaires occidentaux, et Vidino s'emploie \u00e0 en sugg\u00e9rer de nouveaux[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, en tout cas, a \u00e9t\u00e9 impliqu\u00e9 dans plusieurs scandales de trafic d'armes[41]<\/a> et dans l'achat de logiciels espions particuli\u00e8rement pointus, de Pegasus \u00e0 DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. La diligence avec laquelle Vidino et ses coll\u00e8gues (issus d'associations li\u00e9es aux \u00c9mirats arabes unis) op\u00e8rent est telle que m\u00eame dans le golfe Persique, des voix se sont \u00e9lev\u00e9es pour demander la fin des mensonges, avant que ces th\u00e8ses, avanc\u00e9es par Vidino, ne deviennent l'arme d'un quelconque imprudent[43]<\/a>. Trop tard : les th\u00e8ses du lobbyiste milanais ont \u00e9t\u00e9 reprises par Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, le fou qui, en 2012, a tu\u00e9 77 personnes, dont 69 participants \u00e0 un camp d'\u00e9t\u00e9 de la Ligue de la jeunesse ouvri\u00e8re[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La STR-12, l'une des armes les plus avanc\u00e9es sur le plan technologique, a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e en 2012 \u00e0 Abu Dhabi gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une collaboration entre TRENDS Research et Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bien s\u00fbr, Vidino n'est pas responsable du massacre perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 par un psychopathe. Mais cela devrait \u00e9galement inciter \u00e0 la prudence dans l'utilisation des conseils du lobbyiste milanais. Le contraire est vrai : en Italie, par exemple, les services secrets l'ont port\u00e9 au poste de coordinateur de la Commission d'\u00e9tude sur la radicalisation et l'extr\u00e9misme djihadiste[47]<\/a>, qui existait pendant les ann\u00e9es des gouvernements dirig\u00e9s par Matteo Renzi et Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, et l'ont confirm\u00e9 dans l'actuelle Commission de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[49]<\/a>. Un poste dans lequel M. Vidino est en mesure d'influencer les d\u00e9cisions politiques en mati\u00e8re diplomatique et militaire, mais aussi de contr\u00f4ler les r\u00e9sidents musulmans individuels en Italie. Un poste similaire lui a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 attribu\u00e9 au Royaume-Uni, mais il a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9voqu\u00e9 peu apr\u00e8s[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le probl\u00e8me est encore plus prononc\u00e9 en Autriche, o\u00f9 Vidino est membre du conseil consultatif de l'Observatoire de l'islam du gouvernement autrichien[51]<\/a>, au nom duquel il a r\u00e9dig\u00e9 un rapport visant \u00e0 obtenir l'ostracisme contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[52]<\/a>, et collabore activement avec les services secrets, pour lesquels il a aid\u00e9 \u00e0 produire une carte des associations et des lieux de culte musulmans dans le pays[53]<\/a>. Ses \u00e9crits contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont donn\u00e9 lieu \u00e0 une op\u00e9ration de police en novembre 2020, dont l'objectif \u00e9tait de d\u00e9sarmer ce que Vidino consid\u00e8re comme de dangereuses cellules terroristes[54]<\/a>, et qui n'a donn\u00e9 aucun r\u00e9sultat : malgr\u00e9 les efforts de centaines de policiers et la brutalit\u00e9 utilis\u00e9e, tous les accus\u00e9s se sont r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9s innocents[55]<\/a>. Un de ces cas typiques o\u00f9, comme le dit le dicton, la plume des \u00e9crivains tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e des soldats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tout cela devrait faire r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir les politiciens europ\u00e9ens : le scandale des pots-de-vin \u00e0 Bruxelles ne montre pas seulement la faiblesse du syst\u00e8me politique de l'Union, mais il met \u00e9galement en \u00e9vidence la mani\u00e8re tr\u00e8s dangereuse dont des pays \"dangereux\" comme les \u00c9mirats arabes unis et l'Arabie saoudite peuvent provoquer des actes de violence polici\u00e8re ou d'injustice criminelle dans certains \u00c9tats, \u00e0 commencer par l'Italie, la Su\u00e8de et l'Autriche - des nations dans lesquelles l'EFD et Vidino ont non seulement d'excellents contacts, mais occupent \u00e9galement des postes op\u00e9rationnels dans les ganglions les plus sensibles de l'administration publique. Personnellement, cela me conforte dans mon opinion : l'UE n'a pas d'alli\u00e9s - ni la Russie, ni la Chine, ni les pays arabes, ni m\u00eame (et presque personne ne le sait) les \u00c9tats-Unis d'Am\u00e9rique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Il s'appelle Lorenzo Vidino, un Italien transplant\u00e9 en Am\u00e9rique, et il consacre sa vie \u00e0 essayer de convaincre le monde que les Palestiniens et leurs (tr\u00e8s rares) alli\u00e9s font partie d'un gigantesque complot visant \u00e0 renverser le monde chr\u00e9tien - par le fer et le feu. Selon lui, la population tourment\u00e9e des territoires occup\u00e9s, la bande de Gaza et la Cisjordanie, submerg\u00e9e chaque jour par les incursions militaires d'Isra\u00ebl, est au centre d'une organisation th\u00e9ocratique, dirig\u00e9e par l'Iran, qui am\u00e8ne la plan\u00e8te au bord de la troisi\u00e8me guerre mondiale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

C'est une affirmation qui, si elle n'avait pas de puissants partisans et des effets tragiques, serait risible. Les d\u00e9mocrates et les personnes tol\u00e9rantes ne sont pas l\u00e9gion dans le monde musulman, mais les professionnels comme Vidino ont pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : puisque la th\u00e9ocratie iranienne est, objectivement, un enfer, un r\u00e9gime m\u00e9di\u00e9val barbare et sanguinaire, la meilleure fa\u00e7on de discr\u00e9diter les pacifistes et les victimes de pers\u00e9cutions ethniques est de pr\u00e9tendre que les victimes sont des alli\u00e9s de T\u00e9h\u00e9ran, et qu'elles m\u00e9ritent donc d'\u00eatre punies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le levier que Vidino utilise pour d\u00e9cha\u00eener le monde contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans, la Palestine et ceux qui les soutiennent est celui du lobbying. Quelqu'un le paie pour le faire, et ce quelqu'un est un gouvernement (ou plusieurs forces politiques) qui a r\u00e9ussi \u00e0 l'inscrire sur la liste des commentateurs politiques accr\u00e9dit\u00e9s et des lobbyistes officiels \u00e0 Bruxelles - la capitale de l'Union europ\u00e9enne, o\u00f9 la corruption r\u00e8gne en ma\u00eetre, o\u00f9 le contr\u00f4le est comparable \u00e0 z\u00e9ro, et o\u00f9 les effets des interventions pour la d\u00e9fense d'int\u00e9r\u00eats sans rapport avec ceux du peuple europ\u00e9en sont plus efficaces - comme l'a d\u00e9montr\u00e9 la campagne m\u00e9diatique li\u00e9e \u00e0 la Coupe du monde au Qatar et l'explosion simultan\u00e9e d'une violence sans pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent contre le peuple iranien : un tournoi, r\u00e9alis\u00e9 gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 la corruption, qui est devenu le plus grand auto-goal des m\u00e9dias d'\u00c9tat du nouveau si\u00e8cle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Un autogolo comparable, pour ses effets de publicit\u00e9, \u00e0 l'invasion russe de l'Ukraine. Doha aura besoin de plusieurs ann\u00e9es pour faire oublier ce regrettable incident, et ses ennemis, \u00e0 Duba\u00ef et \u00e0 Riyad, feront tout pour qu'il ne soit pas oubli\u00e9. Mais cela ne suffit pas \u00e0 expliquer l'existence de ce lobby : l'extr\u00eame droite am\u00e9ricaine (c'est-\u00e0-dire celle qui est la plus li\u00e9e au fondamentalisme chr\u00e9tien) et l'extr\u00eame droite isra\u00e9lienne (celle qui est sioniste et qui, depuis des ann\u00e9es, est alli\u00e9e aux monarchies du Golfe Persique) soutiennent Vidino et d'autres influenceurs comme lui, parce qu'ils poussent \u00e0 la fin de la d\u00e9mocratie aux \u00c9tats-Unis : une t\u00e2che qui, il y a seulement vingt ans, aurait sembl\u00e9 bonne seulement pour une blague, et qui maintenant, apr\u00e8s l'attaque du Capitole le 6 janvier et la pr\u00e9sidence Trump, semble proche et possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Un jeune n\u00e9ocon est n\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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De gauche \u00e0 droite : Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, membre du personnel consultatif de la Commission europ\u00e9enne), John Duhig et Marwa Farid (EFD), trois des figures les plus influentes de la campagne m\u00e9diatique contre le Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dans l'\u00e9closion de nouvelles organisations d'extr\u00eame droite, li\u00e9es au nationalisme, \u00e0 la religion, ou simplement \u00e0 une vision mystique et antid\u00e9mocratique de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9, les \u00c9tats-Unis continuent d'\u00eatre le pays leader : celui qui inspire, influence et oblige le reste du monde \u00e0 suivre ses modes, ses caprices, ses erreurs. Les figures les plus marquantes de cette tendance sont des milliardaires comme Elon Musk, Peter Thiel et Donald Trump, mais autour d'eux fleurissent des personnages, comme Steve Bannon, qui se situent entre les th\u00e9oriciens d'un nouveau m\u00e9di\u00e9visme technocratique et les \u00e9p\u00e9es avec lesquelles les milliardaires pr\u00e9cit\u00e9s, en guerre les uns contre les autres, s'affrontent dans les journaux, sur le web et \u00e0 la t\u00e9l\u00e9vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino est l'un des plus importants d'entre eux : un expert des affaires du Moyen-Orient, qui se bat contre Elon Musk, contre les crypto-monnaies, contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[2]<\/a>. Ce sont des choses qui n'ont rien \u00e0 voir entre elles, mais l'une des caract\u00e9ristiques de cette nouvelle extr\u00eame droite est d'\u00eatre, comme les th\u00e9ories \u00e9nonc\u00e9es par Adolf Hitler, totalisante[3]<\/a>, et de pr\u00e9tendre expliquer le monde entier \u00e0 partir d'un seul postulat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'une des principales diff\u00e9rences entre ces nouveaux gourous et ceux (comme Hermann Schmitz) du nazisme est que l'ennemi n'est plus le juda\u00efsme, mais une fraction du monde arabe - celle repr\u00e9sent\u00e9e par les Fr\u00e8res musulmans, la Palestine, le printemps arabe, l'Iran et le Qatar : un chaudron de choses qui n'ont rien en commun les unes avec les autres[4]<\/a>. Un chaudron dans lequel Isra\u00ebl et le sionisme sont parfaitement \u00e0 l'aise, puisqu'ils font partie de l'\u00e9quipe men\u00e9e par les n\u00e9o-conservateurs de Donald Trump (qui ne repr\u00e9sentent qu'une fraction de l'extr\u00eame droite am\u00e9ricaine), le prince saoudien Bin Salman et le cheikh \u00e9mirati Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 \u00e0 Milan en 1977, Vidino a termin\u00e9 ses \u00e9tudes dans sa ville natale et a finalement obtenu l'une des sp\u00e9cialisations les plus exclusives au monde : celle de la Fletcher School de l'universit\u00e9 Tufts \u00e0 Medford (Massachussetts) [6]<\/a>, qui accueille chaque ann\u00e9e 230 \u00e9tudiants d'excellence mondiale et qui pr\u00e9pare depuis 90 ans des diplomates, des militaires et des lobbyistes pro-am\u00e9ricains travaillant au Moyen-Orient[7]<\/a>. Une \u00e9cole qui enseigne tous les maux possibles de la Russie de Poutine[8]<\/a> et la corruption dans le sport, en liant (\u00e0 juste titre, je pense) l'esprit de l'organisation des Jeux olympiques de Berlin de 1936 avec tant d'\u00e9v\u00e9nements sportifs de classe mondiale (\u00e0 commencer par la Coupe du monde en Argentine en 1978)[9]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00c0 la fin de ses \u00e9tudes, apr\u00e8s avoir \u00e9galement effectu\u00e9 une p\u00e9riode de formation dans le plus important lobby de l'industrie militaire am\u00e9ricaine (l'\u00e9cole de la RAND Corporation \u00e0 Arlington, en Virginie, au Pentagone[10]<\/a>), Vidino a choisi d'entrer \u00e0 la EFD (Fondation europ\u00e9enne pour la d\u00e9mocratie[11]<\/a>) pour y d\u00e9fendre les int\u00e9r\u00eats nationaux am\u00e9ricains : une organisation bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Bruxelles, active depuis 2005, qui finance la propagande (au sein du Parlement europ\u00e9en[12]<\/a>) des th\u00e8ses n\u00e9oconservatrices am\u00e9ricaines, selon lesquelles il existe de \"bons\" musulmans (Arabie, \u00c9gypte et \u00c9mirats) et de \"mauvais\" musulmans (les Fr\u00e8res musulmans et une liste d'organisations pacifistes li\u00e9es aux mouvements d\u00e9mocratiques dits du printemps arabe, actifs principalement en Angleterre, en Autriche et en Su\u00e8de) - qui, selon l'EFD, sont li\u00e9s au terrorisme fondamentaliste. Une th\u00e8se d\u00e9mentie par les faits, mais fonctionnelle \u00e0 l'alliance entre Isra\u00ebl, l'Arabie Saoudite et les Emirats contre tous les adversaires des monarchies du monde arabe[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une vid\u00e9oconf\u00e9rence de Jonathan Schanzer, l'un des principaux collaborateurs du pr\u00e9sident isra\u00e9lien Netanyahu, leader du FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'EFD est \u00e9galement financ\u00e9, depuis 2011, par des fonds provenant du budget de l'UE (environ 160 000 euros de contributions par an) et du gouvernement am\u00e9ricain (environ un demi-million de dollars) [15]<\/a>, et est dirig\u00e9 par Roberta Bonazzi, qui est \u00e9galement l'un des fondateurs de l'organisation[16]<\/a>. Mme Bonazzi, dont on sait qu'elle est \u00e0 la solde de plusieurs organisations d'extr\u00eame droite qui r\u00e9mun\u00e8rent l'EFD ou l'une de ses soci\u00e9t\u00e9s de conseil priv\u00e9es, comme Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, est c\u00e9l\u00e8bre pour son combat m\u00e9diatique contre le Hezbollah et sa tentative de lier cette organisation terroriste au mouvement de lib\u00e9ration de la Palestine et \u00e0 tous les jeunes musulmans qui luttent pour la d\u00e9mocratie dans le monde arabe[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'activit\u00e9 principale de M. Bonazzi consiste \u00e0 diriger la propagande politique pro-arabe et pro-am\u00e9ricaine dans plusieurs pays europ\u00e9ens, en premier lieu l'Arm\u00e9nie et l'Azerba\u00efdjan[19]<\/a>. Selon Bonazzi, derri\u00e8re ceux qui r\u00e9clament la d\u00e9mocratie, il n'y a pas le r\u00eave d'une g\u00e9n\u00e9ration d'Arabes qui veulent la fin du chauvinisme islamique radical, mais pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment son contraire : la th\u00e9ocratie iranienne, qui combat les monarchies du Golfe, les consid\u00e9rant (comme les Am\u00e9ricains l'aiment) comme modernes, libertaires et progressistes. En ce sens, Bonazzi travaille \u00e9troitement avec l'ambassadeur des \u00c9mirats \u00e0 Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, l'un des principaux collaborateurs de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, l'homme cl\u00e9 du pouvoir saoudien et \u00e9mirati dans le monde[22]<\/a>, marchand d'armes[23]<\/a> et ami et conseiller influent de Donald Trump sur les questions du Moyen-Orient[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En outre, l'EFD est \u00e9troitement li\u00e9 (sur le plan politique et organisationnel) \u00e0 la FDD (Fondation pour la d\u00e9fense des d\u00e9mocraties[25]<\/a>), qui, aux \u00c9tats-Unis, s'efforce d'obtenir des fonds pour l'EFD[26]<\/a>. Le FDD est l'une des organisations les plus radicales en faveur d'Isra\u00ebl et contre les pays arabes qui n'ont pas d'accord avec Tel Aviv, en premier lieu l'Iran[27]<\/a>. L'objectif du FDD est de pousser Washington, sur la base d'affirmations non fond\u00e9es (et souvent ouvertement fausses), \u00e0 mener des op\u00e9rations militaires en Syrie, en Iran, au Liban et dans d'autres pays du Moyen-Orient[28]<\/a>. Une th\u00e8se favorite des dirigeants du FDD consiste \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein et Oussama Ben Laden comme les dirigeants de la m\u00eame organisation terroriste responsable de l'attaque des tours jumelles \u00e0 New York le 11 septembre 2001 : le mouvement pour la lib\u00e9ration de la Palestine !!![29]<\/a>  Comme il est \u00e9vident, les dirigeants du FDD (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz et Jonathan Schanzer) sont des partisans ouverts de Donald Trump et de sa ligne sur les questions du Moyen-Orient[30]<\/a>. En 2009 d\u00e9j\u00e0, le FDD a vers\u00e9 pr\u00e8s d'un demi-million de dollars \u00e0 l'EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'inspiration de Breivik<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Le maniaque norv\u00e9gien Anders Behring Breivik se r\u00e9f\u00e8re \u00e0 Hitler pour expliquer le massacre qu'il a perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 en 2012, mais cite aussi les textes de Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entre-temps, Vidino est devenu un orateur politique populaire. Son ami Al Otaiba l'a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 au ministre des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res des EAU Abdullah Bin Zayed en 2017, apr\u00e8s que Vidino ait beaucoup travaill\u00e9 avec Quiller Consultants, le cabinet de lobbying bas\u00e9 \u00e0 Londres qui place des articles pro-Abu Dhabi dans la presse britannique[33]<\/a>. Dans le magazine trimestriel Middle East Quarterly, Vidino a affirm\u00e9 que \"l'Europe est devenue un incubateur de la pens\u00e9e et du d\u00e9veloppement politique islamistes\" : selon lui, les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont construit un \"vaste r\u00e9seau bien organis\u00e9 de mosqu\u00e9es, d'organisations caritatives et d'organisations islamiques\", dont le but serait d'\u00e9tendre le radicalisme islamique \u00e0 l'ensemble de l'Occident[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ces th\u00e8ses ne sont pas surprenantes. Son travail de lobbyiste \u00e0 l'EFD a conduit Vidino \u00e0 la prochaine \u00e9tape de sa carri\u00e8re : celle d'associ\u00e9 de TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, une agence d'\u00c9tat \u00e9miratie aux objectifs ambitieux : (a) analyser les menaces militaires, m\u00e9diatiques et cybern\u00e9tiques que repr\u00e9sentent les ennemis des monarchies du golfe Persique et impliquer les \u00c9tats-Unis dans les mesures visant \u00e0 r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 ces menaces ; b) d\u00e9signer et r\u00e9pertorier les adversaires des monarchies du golfe (d\u00e9finis tout court comme des \"terroristes\"), exercer des pressions diplomatiques pour qu'ils soient poursuivis, publier ce qu'il est possible de publier pour les discr\u00e9diter ; c) identifier, dans chaque pays, des alli\u00e9s possibles et les contacter ; d) identifier les personnes qui ont des int\u00e9r\u00eats dans les monarchies du golfe Persique et les contacter. d) pr\u00e9parer les \u00c9mirats \u00e0 un conflit militaire, en analysant ses co\u00fbts et ses avantages, et \u00e9valuer les \u00e9tapes n\u00e9cessaires pour s'assurer une place \u00e0 la table o\u00f9 sont distribu\u00e9s les lucratifs contrats de reconstruction ; e) financer des projets d'intelligence artificielle et de cybern\u00e9tique ayant des applications militaires utiles ; f) an\u00e9antir les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ; g) identifier des projets d'investissement \u00e9conomique et infrastructurel dans des pays pr\u00eats \u00e0 recevoir le message de l'islam tel qu'il est pratiqu\u00e9 dans le golfe Persique[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financ\u00e9 par le gotha militaire et p\u00e9trolier du Golfe Persique[37]<\/a>, est dirig\u00e9 par Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, qui a travaill\u00e9 pendant des ann\u00e9es comme conseiller acad\u00e9mique pour l'ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, fond\u00e9 en 1994 par Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan dans le but de justifier le r\u00e9armement massif des \u00c9mirats et aujourd'hui dirig\u00e9 par le chef des lobbyistes \u00e9miratis en Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi) [38]<\/a>. L'ECSSR travaille pour la Tawazun Holding de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. En ao\u00fbt 2017, Tawazun avait vers\u00e9 20 millions de dollars \u00e0 l'ECSSR, et l'ECSSR les a vers\u00e9s \u00e0 l'Institut du Moyen-Orient \u00e0 Washington : une association d'anciens militaires am\u00e9ricains, qui a \u00e0 son tour vers\u00e9 cette somme \u00e0 divers g\u00e9n\u00e9raux et politiciens pour donner un coup de fouet aux contrats militaires entre les \u00c9tats-Unis et les EAU[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire simple : TRENDS et ECSSR sont deux v\u00e9hicules utilis\u00e9s pour corrompre les politiciens et les militaires occidentaux, et Vidino s'emploie \u00e0 en sugg\u00e9rer de nouveaux[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, en tout cas, a \u00e9t\u00e9 impliqu\u00e9 dans plusieurs scandales de trafic d'armes[41]<\/a> et dans l'achat de logiciels espions particuli\u00e8rement pointus, de Pegasus \u00e0 DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. La diligence avec laquelle Vidino et ses coll\u00e8gues (issus d'associations li\u00e9es aux \u00c9mirats arabes unis) op\u00e8rent est telle que m\u00eame dans le golfe Persique, des voix se sont \u00e9lev\u00e9es pour demander la fin des mensonges, avant que ces th\u00e8ses, avanc\u00e9es par Vidino, ne deviennent l'arme d'un quelconque imprudent[43]<\/a>. Trop tard : les th\u00e8ses du lobbyiste milanais ont \u00e9t\u00e9 reprises par Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, le fou qui, en 2012, a tu\u00e9 77 personnes, dont 69 participants \u00e0 un camp d'\u00e9t\u00e9 de la Ligue de la jeunesse ouvri\u00e8re[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La STR-12, l'une des armes les plus avanc\u00e9es sur le plan technologique, a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e en 2012 \u00e0 Abu Dhabi gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une collaboration entre TRENDS Research et Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bien s\u00fbr, Vidino n'est pas responsable du massacre perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 par un psychopathe. Mais cela devrait \u00e9galement inciter \u00e0 la prudence dans l'utilisation des conseils du lobbyiste milanais. Le contraire est vrai : en Italie, par exemple, les services secrets l'ont port\u00e9 au poste de coordinateur de la Commission d'\u00e9tude sur la radicalisation et l'extr\u00e9misme djihadiste[47]<\/a>, qui existait pendant les ann\u00e9es des gouvernements dirig\u00e9s par Matteo Renzi et Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, et l'ont confirm\u00e9 dans l'actuelle Commission de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[49]<\/a>. Un poste dans lequel M. Vidino est en mesure d'influencer les d\u00e9cisions politiques en mati\u00e8re diplomatique et militaire, mais aussi de contr\u00f4ler les r\u00e9sidents musulmans individuels en Italie. Un poste similaire lui a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 attribu\u00e9 au Royaume-Uni, mais il a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9voqu\u00e9 peu apr\u00e8s[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le probl\u00e8me est encore plus prononc\u00e9 en Autriche, o\u00f9 Vidino est membre du conseil consultatif de l'Observatoire de l'islam du gouvernement autrichien[51]<\/a>, au nom duquel il a r\u00e9dig\u00e9 un rapport visant \u00e0 obtenir l'ostracisme contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[52]<\/a>, et collabore activement avec les services secrets, pour lesquels il a aid\u00e9 \u00e0 produire une carte des associations et des lieux de culte musulmans dans le pays[53]<\/a>. Ses \u00e9crits contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont donn\u00e9 lieu \u00e0 une op\u00e9ration de police en novembre 2020, dont l'objectif \u00e9tait de d\u00e9sarmer ce que Vidino consid\u00e8re comme de dangereuses cellules terroristes[54]<\/a>, et qui n'a donn\u00e9 aucun r\u00e9sultat : malgr\u00e9 les efforts de centaines de policiers et la brutalit\u00e9 utilis\u00e9e, tous les accus\u00e9s se sont r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9s innocents[55]<\/a>. Un de ces cas typiques o\u00f9, comme le dit le dicton, la plume des \u00e9crivains tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e des soldats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tout cela devrait faire r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir les politiciens europ\u00e9ens : le scandale des pots-de-vin \u00e0 Bruxelles ne montre pas seulement la faiblesse du syst\u00e8me politique de l'Union, mais il met \u00e9galement en \u00e9vidence la mani\u00e8re tr\u00e8s dangereuse dont des pays \"dangereux\" comme les \u00c9mirats arabes unis et l'Arabie saoudite peuvent provoquer des actes de violence polici\u00e8re ou d'injustice criminelle dans certains \u00c9tats, \u00e0 commencer par l'Italie, la Su\u00e8de et l'Autriche - des nations dans lesquelles l'EFD et Vidino ont non seulement d'excellents contacts, mais occupent \u00e9galement des postes op\u00e9rationnels dans les ganglions les plus sensibles de l'administration publique. Personnellement, cela me conforte dans mon opinion : l'UE n'a pas d'alli\u00e9s - ni la Russie, ni la Chine, ni les pays arabes, ni m\u00eame (et presque personne ne le sait) les \u00c9tats-Unis d'Am\u00e9rique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Il s'appelle Lorenzo Vidino, un Italien transplant\u00e9 en Am\u00e9rique, et il consacre sa vie \u00e0 essayer de convaincre le monde que les Palestiniens et leurs (tr\u00e8s rares) alli\u00e9s font partie d'un gigantesque complot visant \u00e0 renverser le monde chr\u00e9tien - par le fer et le feu. Selon lui, la population tourment\u00e9e des territoires occup\u00e9s, la bande de Gaza et la Cisjordanie, submerg\u00e9e chaque jour par les incursions militaires d'Isra\u00ebl, est au centre d'une organisation th\u00e9ocratique, dirig\u00e9e par l'Iran, qui am\u00e8ne la plan\u00e8te au bord de la troisi\u00e8me guerre mondiale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

C'est une affirmation qui, si elle n'avait pas de puissants partisans et des effets tragiques, serait risible. Les d\u00e9mocrates et les personnes tol\u00e9rantes ne sont pas l\u00e9gion dans le monde musulman, mais les professionnels comme Vidino ont pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : puisque la th\u00e9ocratie iranienne est, objectivement, un enfer, un r\u00e9gime m\u00e9di\u00e9val barbare et sanguinaire, la meilleure fa\u00e7on de discr\u00e9diter les pacifistes et les victimes de pers\u00e9cutions ethniques est de pr\u00e9tendre que les victimes sont des alli\u00e9s de T\u00e9h\u00e9ran, et qu'elles m\u00e9ritent donc d'\u00eatre punies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le levier que Vidino utilise pour d\u00e9cha\u00eener le monde contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans, la Palestine et ceux qui les soutiennent est celui du lobbying. Quelqu'un le paie pour le faire, et ce quelqu'un est un gouvernement (ou plusieurs forces politiques) qui a r\u00e9ussi \u00e0 l'inscrire sur la liste des commentateurs politiques accr\u00e9dit\u00e9s et des lobbyistes officiels \u00e0 Bruxelles - la capitale de l'Union europ\u00e9enne, o\u00f9 la corruption r\u00e8gne en ma\u00eetre, o\u00f9 le contr\u00f4le est comparable \u00e0 z\u00e9ro, et o\u00f9 les effets des interventions pour la d\u00e9fense d'int\u00e9r\u00eats sans rapport avec ceux du peuple europ\u00e9en sont plus efficaces - comme l'a d\u00e9montr\u00e9 la campagne m\u00e9diatique li\u00e9e \u00e0 la Coupe du monde au Qatar et l'explosion simultan\u00e9e d'une violence sans pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent contre le peuple iranien : un tournoi, r\u00e9alis\u00e9 gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 la corruption, qui est devenu le plus grand auto-goal des m\u00e9dias d'\u00c9tat du nouveau si\u00e8cle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Un autogolo comparable, pour ses effets de publicit\u00e9, \u00e0 l'invasion russe de l'Ukraine. Doha aura besoin de plusieurs ann\u00e9es pour faire oublier ce regrettable incident, et ses ennemis, \u00e0 Duba\u00ef et \u00e0 Riyad, feront tout pour qu'il ne soit pas oubli\u00e9. Mais cela ne suffit pas \u00e0 expliquer l'existence de ce lobby : l'extr\u00eame droite am\u00e9ricaine (c'est-\u00e0-dire celle qui est la plus li\u00e9e au fondamentalisme chr\u00e9tien) et l'extr\u00eame droite isra\u00e9lienne (celle qui est sioniste et qui, depuis des ann\u00e9es, est alli\u00e9e aux monarchies du Golfe Persique) soutiennent Vidino et d'autres influenceurs comme lui, parce qu'ils poussent \u00e0 la fin de la d\u00e9mocratie aux \u00c9tats-Unis : une t\u00e2che qui, il y a seulement vingt ans, aurait sembl\u00e9 bonne seulement pour une blague, et qui maintenant, apr\u00e8s l'attaque du Capitole le 6 janvier et la pr\u00e9sidence Trump, semble proche et possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Un jeune n\u00e9ocon est n\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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De gauche \u00e0 droite : Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, membre du personnel consultatif de la Commission europ\u00e9enne), John Duhig et Marwa Farid (EFD), trois des figures les plus influentes de la campagne m\u00e9diatique contre le Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dans l'\u00e9closion de nouvelles organisations d'extr\u00eame droite, li\u00e9es au nationalisme, \u00e0 la religion, ou simplement \u00e0 une vision mystique et antid\u00e9mocratique de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9, les \u00c9tats-Unis continuent d'\u00eatre le pays leader : celui qui inspire, influence et oblige le reste du monde \u00e0 suivre ses modes, ses caprices, ses erreurs. Les figures les plus marquantes de cette tendance sont des milliardaires comme Elon Musk, Peter Thiel et Donald Trump, mais autour d'eux fleurissent des personnages, comme Steve Bannon, qui se situent entre les th\u00e9oriciens d'un nouveau m\u00e9di\u00e9visme technocratique et les \u00e9p\u00e9es avec lesquelles les milliardaires pr\u00e9cit\u00e9s, en guerre les uns contre les autres, s'affrontent dans les journaux, sur le web et \u00e0 la t\u00e9l\u00e9vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino est l'un des plus importants d'entre eux : un expert des affaires du Moyen-Orient, qui se bat contre Elon Musk, contre les crypto-monnaies, contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[2]<\/a>. Ce sont des choses qui n'ont rien \u00e0 voir entre elles, mais l'une des caract\u00e9ristiques de cette nouvelle extr\u00eame droite est d'\u00eatre, comme les th\u00e9ories \u00e9nonc\u00e9es par Adolf Hitler, totalisante[3]<\/a>, et de pr\u00e9tendre expliquer le monde entier \u00e0 partir d'un seul postulat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'une des principales diff\u00e9rences entre ces nouveaux gourous et ceux (comme Hermann Schmitz) du nazisme est que l'ennemi n'est plus le juda\u00efsme, mais une fraction du monde arabe - celle repr\u00e9sent\u00e9e par les Fr\u00e8res musulmans, la Palestine, le printemps arabe, l'Iran et le Qatar : un chaudron de choses qui n'ont rien en commun les unes avec les autres[4]<\/a>. Un chaudron dans lequel Isra\u00ebl et le sionisme sont parfaitement \u00e0 l'aise, puisqu'ils font partie de l'\u00e9quipe men\u00e9e par les n\u00e9o-conservateurs de Donald Trump (qui ne repr\u00e9sentent qu'une fraction de l'extr\u00eame droite am\u00e9ricaine), le prince saoudien Bin Salman et le cheikh \u00e9mirati Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 \u00e0 Milan en 1977, Vidino a termin\u00e9 ses \u00e9tudes dans sa ville natale et a finalement obtenu l'une des sp\u00e9cialisations les plus exclusives au monde : celle de la Fletcher School de l'universit\u00e9 Tufts \u00e0 Medford (Massachussetts) [6]<\/a>, qui accueille chaque ann\u00e9e 230 \u00e9tudiants d'excellence mondiale et qui pr\u00e9pare depuis 90 ans des diplomates, des militaires et des lobbyistes pro-am\u00e9ricains travaillant au Moyen-Orient[7]<\/a>. Une \u00e9cole qui enseigne tous les maux possibles de la Russie de Poutine[8]<\/a> et la corruption dans le sport, en liant (\u00e0 juste titre, je pense) l'esprit de l'organisation des Jeux olympiques de Berlin de 1936 avec tant d'\u00e9v\u00e9nements sportifs de classe mondiale (\u00e0 commencer par la Coupe du monde en Argentine en 1978)[9]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00c0 la fin de ses \u00e9tudes, apr\u00e8s avoir \u00e9galement effectu\u00e9 une p\u00e9riode de formation dans le plus important lobby de l'industrie militaire am\u00e9ricaine (l'\u00e9cole de la RAND Corporation \u00e0 Arlington, en Virginie, au Pentagone[10]<\/a>), Vidino a choisi d'entrer \u00e0 la EFD (Fondation europ\u00e9enne pour la d\u00e9mocratie[11]<\/a>) pour y d\u00e9fendre les int\u00e9r\u00eats nationaux am\u00e9ricains : une organisation bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Bruxelles, active depuis 2005, qui finance la propagande (au sein du Parlement europ\u00e9en[12]<\/a>) des th\u00e8ses n\u00e9oconservatrices am\u00e9ricaines, selon lesquelles il existe de \"bons\" musulmans (Arabie, \u00c9gypte et \u00c9mirats) et de \"mauvais\" musulmans (les Fr\u00e8res musulmans et une liste d'organisations pacifistes li\u00e9es aux mouvements d\u00e9mocratiques dits du printemps arabe, actifs principalement en Angleterre, en Autriche et en Su\u00e8de) - qui, selon l'EFD, sont li\u00e9s au terrorisme fondamentaliste. Une th\u00e8se d\u00e9mentie par les faits, mais fonctionnelle \u00e0 l'alliance entre Isra\u00ebl, l'Arabie Saoudite et les Emirats contre tous les adversaires des monarchies du monde arabe[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une vid\u00e9oconf\u00e9rence de Jonathan Schanzer, l'un des principaux collaborateurs du pr\u00e9sident isra\u00e9lien Netanyahu, leader du FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'EFD est \u00e9galement financ\u00e9, depuis 2011, par des fonds provenant du budget de l'UE (environ 160 000 euros de contributions par an) et du gouvernement am\u00e9ricain (environ un demi-million de dollars) [15]<\/a>, et est dirig\u00e9 par Roberta Bonazzi, qui est \u00e9galement l'un des fondateurs de l'organisation[16]<\/a>. Mme Bonazzi, dont on sait qu'elle est \u00e0 la solde de plusieurs organisations d'extr\u00eame droite qui r\u00e9mun\u00e8rent l'EFD ou l'une de ses soci\u00e9t\u00e9s de conseil priv\u00e9es, comme Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, est c\u00e9l\u00e8bre pour son combat m\u00e9diatique contre le Hezbollah et sa tentative de lier cette organisation terroriste au mouvement de lib\u00e9ration de la Palestine et \u00e0 tous les jeunes musulmans qui luttent pour la d\u00e9mocratie dans le monde arabe[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'activit\u00e9 principale de M. Bonazzi consiste \u00e0 diriger la propagande politique pro-arabe et pro-am\u00e9ricaine dans plusieurs pays europ\u00e9ens, en premier lieu l'Arm\u00e9nie et l'Azerba\u00efdjan[19]<\/a>. Selon Bonazzi, derri\u00e8re ceux qui r\u00e9clament la d\u00e9mocratie, il n'y a pas le r\u00eave d'une g\u00e9n\u00e9ration d'Arabes qui veulent la fin du chauvinisme islamique radical, mais pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment son contraire : la th\u00e9ocratie iranienne, qui combat les monarchies du Golfe, les consid\u00e9rant (comme les Am\u00e9ricains l'aiment) comme modernes, libertaires et progressistes. En ce sens, Bonazzi travaille \u00e9troitement avec l'ambassadeur des \u00c9mirats \u00e0 Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, l'un des principaux collaborateurs de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, l'homme cl\u00e9 du pouvoir saoudien et \u00e9mirati dans le monde[22]<\/a>, marchand d'armes[23]<\/a> et ami et conseiller influent de Donald Trump sur les questions du Moyen-Orient[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En outre, l'EFD est \u00e9troitement li\u00e9 (sur le plan politique et organisationnel) \u00e0 la FDD (Fondation pour la d\u00e9fense des d\u00e9mocraties[25]<\/a>), qui, aux \u00c9tats-Unis, s'efforce d'obtenir des fonds pour l'EFD[26]<\/a>. Le FDD est l'une des organisations les plus radicales en faveur d'Isra\u00ebl et contre les pays arabes qui n'ont pas d'accord avec Tel Aviv, en premier lieu l'Iran[27]<\/a>. L'objectif du FDD est de pousser Washington, sur la base d'affirmations non fond\u00e9es (et souvent ouvertement fausses), \u00e0 mener des op\u00e9rations militaires en Syrie, en Iran, au Liban et dans d'autres pays du Moyen-Orient[28]<\/a>. Une th\u00e8se favorite des dirigeants du FDD consiste \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein et Oussama Ben Laden comme les dirigeants de la m\u00eame organisation terroriste responsable de l'attaque des tours jumelles \u00e0 New York le 11 septembre 2001 : le mouvement pour la lib\u00e9ration de la Palestine !!![29]<\/a>  Comme il est \u00e9vident, les dirigeants du FDD (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz et Jonathan Schanzer) sont des partisans ouverts de Donald Trump et de sa ligne sur les questions du Moyen-Orient[30]<\/a>. En 2009 d\u00e9j\u00e0, le FDD a vers\u00e9 pr\u00e8s d'un demi-million de dollars \u00e0 l'EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'inspiration de Breivik<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Le maniaque norv\u00e9gien Anders Behring Breivik se r\u00e9f\u00e8re \u00e0 Hitler pour expliquer le massacre qu'il a perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 en 2012, mais cite aussi les textes de Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entre-temps, Vidino est devenu un orateur politique populaire. Son ami Al Otaiba l'a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 au ministre des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res des EAU Abdullah Bin Zayed en 2017, apr\u00e8s que Vidino ait beaucoup travaill\u00e9 avec Quiller Consultants, le cabinet de lobbying bas\u00e9 \u00e0 Londres qui place des articles pro-Abu Dhabi dans la presse britannique[33]<\/a>. Dans le magazine trimestriel Middle East Quarterly, Vidino a affirm\u00e9 que \"l'Europe est devenue un incubateur de la pens\u00e9e et du d\u00e9veloppement politique islamistes\" : selon lui, les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont construit un \"vaste r\u00e9seau bien organis\u00e9 de mosqu\u00e9es, d'organisations caritatives et d'organisations islamiques\", dont le but serait d'\u00e9tendre le radicalisme islamique \u00e0 l'ensemble de l'Occident[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ces th\u00e8ses ne sont pas surprenantes. Son travail de lobbyiste \u00e0 l'EFD a conduit Vidino \u00e0 la prochaine \u00e9tape de sa carri\u00e8re : celle d'associ\u00e9 de TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, une agence d'\u00c9tat \u00e9miratie aux objectifs ambitieux : (a) analyser les menaces militaires, m\u00e9diatiques et cybern\u00e9tiques que repr\u00e9sentent les ennemis des monarchies du golfe Persique et impliquer les \u00c9tats-Unis dans les mesures visant \u00e0 r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 ces menaces ; b) d\u00e9signer et r\u00e9pertorier les adversaires des monarchies du golfe (d\u00e9finis tout court comme des \"terroristes\"), exercer des pressions diplomatiques pour qu'ils soient poursuivis, publier ce qu'il est possible de publier pour les discr\u00e9diter ; c) identifier, dans chaque pays, des alli\u00e9s possibles et les contacter ; d) identifier les personnes qui ont des int\u00e9r\u00eats dans les monarchies du golfe Persique et les contacter. d) pr\u00e9parer les \u00c9mirats \u00e0 un conflit militaire, en analysant ses co\u00fbts et ses avantages, et \u00e9valuer les \u00e9tapes n\u00e9cessaires pour s'assurer une place \u00e0 la table o\u00f9 sont distribu\u00e9s les lucratifs contrats de reconstruction ; e) financer des projets d'intelligence artificielle et de cybern\u00e9tique ayant des applications militaires utiles ; f) an\u00e9antir les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ; g) identifier des projets d'investissement \u00e9conomique et infrastructurel dans des pays pr\u00eats \u00e0 recevoir le message de l'islam tel qu'il est pratiqu\u00e9 dans le golfe Persique[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financ\u00e9 par le gotha militaire et p\u00e9trolier du Golfe Persique[37]<\/a>, est dirig\u00e9 par Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, qui a travaill\u00e9 pendant des ann\u00e9es comme conseiller acad\u00e9mique pour l'ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, fond\u00e9 en 1994 par Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan dans le but de justifier le r\u00e9armement massif des \u00c9mirats et aujourd'hui dirig\u00e9 par le chef des lobbyistes \u00e9miratis en Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi) [38]<\/a>. L'ECSSR travaille pour la Tawazun Holding de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. En ao\u00fbt 2017, Tawazun avait vers\u00e9 20 millions de dollars \u00e0 l'ECSSR, et l'ECSSR les a vers\u00e9s \u00e0 l'Institut du Moyen-Orient \u00e0 Washington : une association d'anciens militaires am\u00e9ricains, qui a \u00e0 son tour vers\u00e9 cette somme \u00e0 divers g\u00e9n\u00e9raux et politiciens pour donner un coup de fouet aux contrats militaires entre les \u00c9tats-Unis et les EAU[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire simple : TRENDS et ECSSR sont deux v\u00e9hicules utilis\u00e9s pour corrompre les politiciens et les militaires occidentaux, et Vidino s'emploie \u00e0 en sugg\u00e9rer de nouveaux[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, en tout cas, a \u00e9t\u00e9 impliqu\u00e9 dans plusieurs scandales de trafic d'armes[41]<\/a> et dans l'achat de logiciels espions particuli\u00e8rement pointus, de Pegasus \u00e0 DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. La diligence avec laquelle Vidino et ses coll\u00e8gues (issus d'associations li\u00e9es aux \u00c9mirats arabes unis) op\u00e8rent est telle que m\u00eame dans le golfe Persique, des voix se sont \u00e9lev\u00e9es pour demander la fin des mensonges, avant que ces th\u00e8ses, avanc\u00e9es par Vidino, ne deviennent l'arme d'un quelconque imprudent[43]<\/a>. Trop tard : les th\u00e8ses du lobbyiste milanais ont \u00e9t\u00e9 reprises par Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, le fou qui, en 2012, a tu\u00e9 77 personnes, dont 69 participants \u00e0 un camp d'\u00e9t\u00e9 de la Ligue de la jeunesse ouvri\u00e8re[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La STR-12, l'une des armes les plus avanc\u00e9es sur le plan technologique, a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e en 2012 \u00e0 Abu Dhabi gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une collaboration entre TRENDS Research et Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bien s\u00fbr, Vidino n'est pas responsable du massacre perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 par un psychopathe. Mais cela devrait \u00e9galement inciter \u00e0 la prudence dans l'utilisation des conseils du lobbyiste milanais. Le contraire est vrai : en Italie, par exemple, les services secrets l'ont port\u00e9 au poste de coordinateur de la Commission d'\u00e9tude sur la radicalisation et l'extr\u00e9misme djihadiste[47]<\/a>, qui existait pendant les ann\u00e9es des gouvernements dirig\u00e9s par Matteo Renzi et Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, et l'ont confirm\u00e9 dans l'actuelle Commission de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[49]<\/a>. Un poste dans lequel M. Vidino est en mesure d'influencer les d\u00e9cisions politiques en mati\u00e8re diplomatique et militaire, mais aussi de contr\u00f4ler les r\u00e9sidents musulmans individuels en Italie. Un poste similaire lui a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 attribu\u00e9 au Royaume-Uni, mais il a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9voqu\u00e9 peu apr\u00e8s[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le probl\u00e8me est encore plus prononc\u00e9 en Autriche, o\u00f9 Vidino est membre du conseil consultatif de l'Observatoire de l'islam du gouvernement autrichien[51]<\/a>, au nom duquel il a r\u00e9dig\u00e9 un rapport visant \u00e0 obtenir l'ostracisme contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[52]<\/a>, et collabore activement avec les services secrets, pour lesquels il a aid\u00e9 \u00e0 produire une carte des associations et des lieux de culte musulmans dans le pays[53]<\/a>. Ses \u00e9crits contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont donn\u00e9 lieu \u00e0 une op\u00e9ration de police en novembre 2020, dont l'objectif \u00e9tait de d\u00e9sarmer ce que Vidino consid\u00e8re comme de dangereuses cellules terroristes[54]<\/a>, et qui n'a donn\u00e9 aucun r\u00e9sultat : malgr\u00e9 les efforts de centaines de policiers et la brutalit\u00e9 utilis\u00e9e, tous les accus\u00e9s se sont r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9s innocents[55]<\/a>. Un de ces cas typiques o\u00f9, comme le dit le dicton, la plume des \u00e9crivains tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e des soldats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tout cela devrait faire r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir les politiciens europ\u00e9ens : le scandale des pots-de-vin \u00e0 Bruxelles ne montre pas seulement la faiblesse du syst\u00e8me politique de l'Union, mais il met \u00e9galement en \u00e9vidence la mani\u00e8re tr\u00e8s dangereuse dont des pays \"dangereux\" comme les \u00c9mirats arabes unis et l'Arabie saoudite peuvent provoquer des actes de violence polici\u00e8re ou d'injustice criminelle dans certains \u00c9tats, \u00e0 commencer par l'Italie, la Su\u00e8de et l'Autriche - des nations dans lesquelles l'EFD et Vidino ont non seulement d'excellents contacts, mais occupent \u00e9galement des postes op\u00e9rationnels dans les ganglions les plus sensibles de l'administration publique. Personnellement, cela me conforte dans mon opinion : l'UE n'a pas d'alli\u00e9s - ni la Russie, ni la Chine, ni les pays arabes, ni m\u00eame (et presque personne ne le sait) les \u00c9tats-Unis d'Am\u00e9rique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

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His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Il s'appelle Lorenzo Vidino, un Italien transplant\u00e9 en Am\u00e9rique, et il consacre sa vie \u00e0 essayer de convaincre le monde que les Palestiniens et leurs (tr\u00e8s rares) alli\u00e9s font partie d'un gigantesque complot visant \u00e0 renverser le monde chr\u00e9tien - par le fer et le feu. Selon lui, la population tourment\u00e9e des territoires occup\u00e9s, la bande de Gaza et la Cisjordanie, submerg\u00e9e chaque jour par les incursions militaires d'Isra\u00ebl, est au centre d'une organisation th\u00e9ocratique, dirig\u00e9e par l'Iran, qui am\u00e8ne la plan\u00e8te au bord de la troisi\u00e8me guerre mondiale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

C'est une affirmation qui, si elle n'avait pas de puissants partisans et des effets tragiques, serait risible. Les d\u00e9mocrates et les personnes tol\u00e9rantes ne sont pas l\u00e9gion dans le monde musulman, mais les professionnels comme Vidino ont pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : puisque la th\u00e9ocratie iranienne est, objectivement, un enfer, un r\u00e9gime m\u00e9di\u00e9val barbare et sanguinaire, la meilleure fa\u00e7on de discr\u00e9diter les pacifistes et les victimes de pers\u00e9cutions ethniques est de pr\u00e9tendre que les victimes sont des alli\u00e9s de T\u00e9h\u00e9ran, et qu'elles m\u00e9ritent donc d'\u00eatre punies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le levier que Vidino utilise pour d\u00e9cha\u00eener le monde contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans, la Palestine et ceux qui les soutiennent est celui du lobbying. Quelqu'un le paie pour le faire, et ce quelqu'un est un gouvernement (ou plusieurs forces politiques) qui a r\u00e9ussi \u00e0 l'inscrire sur la liste des commentateurs politiques accr\u00e9dit\u00e9s et des lobbyistes officiels \u00e0 Bruxelles - la capitale de l'Union europ\u00e9enne, o\u00f9 la corruption r\u00e8gne en ma\u00eetre, o\u00f9 le contr\u00f4le est comparable \u00e0 z\u00e9ro, et o\u00f9 les effets des interventions pour la d\u00e9fense d'int\u00e9r\u00eats sans rapport avec ceux du peuple europ\u00e9en sont plus efficaces - comme l'a d\u00e9montr\u00e9 la campagne m\u00e9diatique li\u00e9e \u00e0 la Coupe du monde au Qatar et l'explosion simultan\u00e9e d'une violence sans pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent contre le peuple iranien : un tournoi, r\u00e9alis\u00e9 gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 la corruption, qui est devenu le plus grand auto-goal des m\u00e9dias d'\u00c9tat du nouveau si\u00e8cle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Un autogolo comparable, pour ses effets de publicit\u00e9, \u00e0 l'invasion russe de l'Ukraine. Doha aura besoin de plusieurs ann\u00e9es pour faire oublier ce regrettable incident, et ses ennemis, \u00e0 Duba\u00ef et \u00e0 Riyad, feront tout pour qu'il ne soit pas oubli\u00e9. Mais cela ne suffit pas \u00e0 expliquer l'existence de ce lobby : l'extr\u00eame droite am\u00e9ricaine (c'est-\u00e0-dire celle qui est la plus li\u00e9e au fondamentalisme chr\u00e9tien) et l'extr\u00eame droite isra\u00e9lienne (celle qui est sioniste et qui, depuis des ann\u00e9es, est alli\u00e9e aux monarchies du Golfe Persique) soutiennent Vidino et d'autres influenceurs comme lui, parce qu'ils poussent \u00e0 la fin de la d\u00e9mocratie aux \u00c9tats-Unis : une t\u00e2che qui, il y a seulement vingt ans, aurait sembl\u00e9 bonne seulement pour une blague, et qui maintenant, apr\u00e8s l'attaque du Capitole le 6 janvier et la pr\u00e9sidence Trump, semble proche et possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Un jeune n\u00e9ocon est n\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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De gauche \u00e0 droite : Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, membre du personnel consultatif de la Commission europ\u00e9enne), John Duhig et Marwa Farid (EFD), trois des figures les plus influentes de la campagne m\u00e9diatique contre le Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dans l'\u00e9closion de nouvelles organisations d'extr\u00eame droite, li\u00e9es au nationalisme, \u00e0 la religion, ou simplement \u00e0 une vision mystique et antid\u00e9mocratique de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9, les \u00c9tats-Unis continuent d'\u00eatre le pays leader : celui qui inspire, influence et oblige le reste du monde \u00e0 suivre ses modes, ses caprices, ses erreurs. Les figures les plus marquantes de cette tendance sont des milliardaires comme Elon Musk, Peter Thiel et Donald Trump, mais autour d'eux fleurissent des personnages, comme Steve Bannon, qui se situent entre les th\u00e9oriciens d'un nouveau m\u00e9di\u00e9visme technocratique et les \u00e9p\u00e9es avec lesquelles les milliardaires pr\u00e9cit\u00e9s, en guerre les uns contre les autres, s'affrontent dans les journaux, sur le web et \u00e0 la t\u00e9l\u00e9vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino est l'un des plus importants d'entre eux : un expert des affaires du Moyen-Orient, qui se bat contre Elon Musk, contre les crypto-monnaies, contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[2]<\/a>. Ce sont des choses qui n'ont rien \u00e0 voir entre elles, mais l'une des caract\u00e9ristiques de cette nouvelle extr\u00eame droite est d'\u00eatre, comme les th\u00e9ories \u00e9nonc\u00e9es par Adolf Hitler, totalisante[3]<\/a>, et de pr\u00e9tendre expliquer le monde entier \u00e0 partir d'un seul postulat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'une des principales diff\u00e9rences entre ces nouveaux gourous et ceux (comme Hermann Schmitz) du nazisme est que l'ennemi n'est plus le juda\u00efsme, mais une fraction du monde arabe - celle repr\u00e9sent\u00e9e par les Fr\u00e8res musulmans, la Palestine, le printemps arabe, l'Iran et le Qatar : un chaudron de choses qui n'ont rien en commun les unes avec les autres[4]<\/a>. Un chaudron dans lequel Isra\u00ebl et le sionisme sont parfaitement \u00e0 l'aise, puisqu'ils font partie de l'\u00e9quipe men\u00e9e par les n\u00e9o-conservateurs de Donald Trump (qui ne repr\u00e9sentent qu'une fraction de l'extr\u00eame droite am\u00e9ricaine), le prince saoudien Bin Salman et le cheikh \u00e9mirati Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 \u00e0 Milan en 1977, Vidino a termin\u00e9 ses \u00e9tudes dans sa ville natale et a finalement obtenu l'une des sp\u00e9cialisations les plus exclusives au monde : celle de la Fletcher School de l'universit\u00e9 Tufts \u00e0 Medford (Massachussetts) [6]<\/a>, qui accueille chaque ann\u00e9e 230 \u00e9tudiants d'excellence mondiale et qui pr\u00e9pare depuis 90 ans des diplomates, des militaires et des lobbyistes pro-am\u00e9ricains travaillant au Moyen-Orient[7]<\/a>. Une \u00e9cole qui enseigne tous les maux possibles de la Russie de Poutine[8]<\/a> et la corruption dans le sport, en liant (\u00e0 juste titre, je pense) l'esprit de l'organisation des Jeux olympiques de Berlin de 1936 avec tant d'\u00e9v\u00e9nements sportifs de classe mondiale (\u00e0 commencer par la Coupe du monde en Argentine en 1978)[9]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00c0 la fin de ses \u00e9tudes, apr\u00e8s avoir \u00e9galement effectu\u00e9 une p\u00e9riode de formation dans le plus important lobby de l'industrie militaire am\u00e9ricaine (l'\u00e9cole de la RAND Corporation \u00e0 Arlington, en Virginie, au Pentagone[10]<\/a>), Vidino a choisi d'entrer \u00e0 la EFD (Fondation europ\u00e9enne pour la d\u00e9mocratie[11]<\/a>) pour y d\u00e9fendre les int\u00e9r\u00eats nationaux am\u00e9ricains : une organisation bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Bruxelles, active depuis 2005, qui finance la propagande (au sein du Parlement europ\u00e9en[12]<\/a>) des th\u00e8ses n\u00e9oconservatrices am\u00e9ricaines, selon lesquelles il existe de \"bons\" musulmans (Arabie, \u00c9gypte et \u00c9mirats) et de \"mauvais\" musulmans (les Fr\u00e8res musulmans et une liste d'organisations pacifistes li\u00e9es aux mouvements d\u00e9mocratiques dits du printemps arabe, actifs principalement en Angleterre, en Autriche et en Su\u00e8de) - qui, selon l'EFD, sont li\u00e9s au terrorisme fondamentaliste. Une th\u00e8se d\u00e9mentie par les faits, mais fonctionnelle \u00e0 l'alliance entre Isra\u00ebl, l'Arabie Saoudite et les Emirats contre tous les adversaires des monarchies du monde arabe[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une vid\u00e9oconf\u00e9rence de Jonathan Schanzer, l'un des principaux collaborateurs du pr\u00e9sident isra\u00e9lien Netanyahu, leader du FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'EFD est \u00e9galement financ\u00e9, depuis 2011, par des fonds provenant du budget de l'UE (environ 160 000 euros de contributions par an) et du gouvernement am\u00e9ricain (environ un demi-million de dollars) [15]<\/a>, et est dirig\u00e9 par Roberta Bonazzi, qui est \u00e9galement l'un des fondateurs de l'organisation[16]<\/a>. Mme Bonazzi, dont on sait qu'elle est \u00e0 la solde de plusieurs organisations d'extr\u00eame droite qui r\u00e9mun\u00e8rent l'EFD ou l'une de ses soci\u00e9t\u00e9s de conseil priv\u00e9es, comme Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, est c\u00e9l\u00e8bre pour son combat m\u00e9diatique contre le Hezbollah et sa tentative de lier cette organisation terroriste au mouvement de lib\u00e9ration de la Palestine et \u00e0 tous les jeunes musulmans qui luttent pour la d\u00e9mocratie dans le monde arabe[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'activit\u00e9 principale de M. Bonazzi consiste \u00e0 diriger la propagande politique pro-arabe et pro-am\u00e9ricaine dans plusieurs pays europ\u00e9ens, en premier lieu l'Arm\u00e9nie et l'Azerba\u00efdjan[19]<\/a>. Selon Bonazzi, derri\u00e8re ceux qui r\u00e9clament la d\u00e9mocratie, il n'y a pas le r\u00eave d'une g\u00e9n\u00e9ration d'Arabes qui veulent la fin du chauvinisme islamique radical, mais pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment son contraire : la th\u00e9ocratie iranienne, qui combat les monarchies du Golfe, les consid\u00e9rant (comme les Am\u00e9ricains l'aiment) comme modernes, libertaires et progressistes. En ce sens, Bonazzi travaille \u00e9troitement avec l'ambassadeur des \u00c9mirats \u00e0 Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, l'un des principaux collaborateurs de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, l'homme cl\u00e9 du pouvoir saoudien et \u00e9mirati dans le monde[22]<\/a>, marchand d'armes[23]<\/a> et ami et conseiller influent de Donald Trump sur les questions du Moyen-Orient[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En outre, l'EFD est \u00e9troitement li\u00e9 (sur le plan politique et organisationnel) \u00e0 la FDD (Fondation pour la d\u00e9fense des d\u00e9mocraties[25]<\/a>), qui, aux \u00c9tats-Unis, s'efforce d'obtenir des fonds pour l'EFD[26]<\/a>. Le FDD est l'une des organisations les plus radicales en faveur d'Isra\u00ebl et contre les pays arabes qui n'ont pas d'accord avec Tel Aviv, en premier lieu l'Iran[27]<\/a>. L'objectif du FDD est de pousser Washington, sur la base d'affirmations non fond\u00e9es (et souvent ouvertement fausses), \u00e0 mener des op\u00e9rations militaires en Syrie, en Iran, au Liban et dans d'autres pays du Moyen-Orient[28]<\/a>. Une th\u00e8se favorite des dirigeants du FDD consiste \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein et Oussama Ben Laden comme les dirigeants de la m\u00eame organisation terroriste responsable de l'attaque des tours jumelles \u00e0 New York le 11 septembre 2001 : le mouvement pour la lib\u00e9ration de la Palestine !!![29]<\/a>  Comme il est \u00e9vident, les dirigeants du FDD (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz et Jonathan Schanzer) sont des partisans ouverts de Donald Trump et de sa ligne sur les questions du Moyen-Orient[30]<\/a>. En 2009 d\u00e9j\u00e0, le FDD a vers\u00e9 pr\u00e8s d'un demi-million de dollars \u00e0 l'EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'inspiration de Breivik<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Le maniaque norv\u00e9gien Anders Behring Breivik se r\u00e9f\u00e8re \u00e0 Hitler pour expliquer le massacre qu'il a perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 en 2012, mais cite aussi les textes de Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entre-temps, Vidino est devenu un orateur politique populaire. Son ami Al Otaiba l'a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 au ministre des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res des EAU Abdullah Bin Zayed en 2017, apr\u00e8s que Vidino ait beaucoup travaill\u00e9 avec Quiller Consultants, le cabinet de lobbying bas\u00e9 \u00e0 Londres qui place des articles pro-Abu Dhabi dans la presse britannique[33]<\/a>. Dans le magazine trimestriel Middle East Quarterly, Vidino a affirm\u00e9 que \"l'Europe est devenue un incubateur de la pens\u00e9e et du d\u00e9veloppement politique islamistes\" : selon lui, les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont construit un \"vaste r\u00e9seau bien organis\u00e9 de mosqu\u00e9es, d'organisations caritatives et d'organisations islamiques\", dont le but serait d'\u00e9tendre le radicalisme islamique \u00e0 l'ensemble de l'Occident[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ces th\u00e8ses ne sont pas surprenantes. Son travail de lobbyiste \u00e0 l'EFD a conduit Vidino \u00e0 la prochaine \u00e9tape de sa carri\u00e8re : celle d'associ\u00e9 de TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, une agence d'\u00c9tat \u00e9miratie aux objectifs ambitieux : (a) analyser les menaces militaires, m\u00e9diatiques et cybern\u00e9tiques que repr\u00e9sentent les ennemis des monarchies du golfe Persique et impliquer les \u00c9tats-Unis dans les mesures visant \u00e0 r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 ces menaces ; b) d\u00e9signer et r\u00e9pertorier les adversaires des monarchies du golfe (d\u00e9finis tout court comme des \"terroristes\"), exercer des pressions diplomatiques pour qu'ils soient poursuivis, publier ce qu'il est possible de publier pour les discr\u00e9diter ; c) identifier, dans chaque pays, des alli\u00e9s possibles et les contacter ; d) identifier les personnes qui ont des int\u00e9r\u00eats dans les monarchies du golfe Persique et les contacter. d) pr\u00e9parer les \u00c9mirats \u00e0 un conflit militaire, en analysant ses co\u00fbts et ses avantages, et \u00e9valuer les \u00e9tapes n\u00e9cessaires pour s'assurer une place \u00e0 la table o\u00f9 sont distribu\u00e9s les lucratifs contrats de reconstruction ; e) financer des projets d'intelligence artificielle et de cybern\u00e9tique ayant des applications militaires utiles ; f) an\u00e9antir les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ; g) identifier des projets d'investissement \u00e9conomique et infrastructurel dans des pays pr\u00eats \u00e0 recevoir le message de l'islam tel qu'il est pratiqu\u00e9 dans le golfe Persique[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financ\u00e9 par le gotha militaire et p\u00e9trolier du Golfe Persique[37]<\/a>, est dirig\u00e9 par Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, qui a travaill\u00e9 pendant des ann\u00e9es comme conseiller acad\u00e9mique pour l'ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, fond\u00e9 en 1994 par Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan dans le but de justifier le r\u00e9armement massif des \u00c9mirats et aujourd'hui dirig\u00e9 par le chef des lobbyistes \u00e9miratis en Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi) [38]<\/a>. L'ECSSR travaille pour la Tawazun Holding de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. En ao\u00fbt 2017, Tawazun avait vers\u00e9 20 millions de dollars \u00e0 l'ECSSR, et l'ECSSR les a vers\u00e9s \u00e0 l'Institut du Moyen-Orient \u00e0 Washington : une association d'anciens militaires am\u00e9ricains, qui a \u00e0 son tour vers\u00e9 cette somme \u00e0 divers g\u00e9n\u00e9raux et politiciens pour donner un coup de fouet aux contrats militaires entre les \u00c9tats-Unis et les EAU[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire simple : TRENDS et ECSSR sont deux v\u00e9hicules utilis\u00e9s pour corrompre les politiciens et les militaires occidentaux, et Vidino s'emploie \u00e0 en sugg\u00e9rer de nouveaux[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, en tout cas, a \u00e9t\u00e9 impliqu\u00e9 dans plusieurs scandales de trafic d'armes[41]<\/a> et dans l'achat de logiciels espions particuli\u00e8rement pointus, de Pegasus \u00e0 DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. La diligence avec laquelle Vidino et ses coll\u00e8gues (issus d'associations li\u00e9es aux \u00c9mirats arabes unis) op\u00e8rent est telle que m\u00eame dans le golfe Persique, des voix se sont \u00e9lev\u00e9es pour demander la fin des mensonges, avant que ces th\u00e8ses, avanc\u00e9es par Vidino, ne deviennent l'arme d'un quelconque imprudent[43]<\/a>. Trop tard : les th\u00e8ses du lobbyiste milanais ont \u00e9t\u00e9 reprises par Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, le fou qui, en 2012, a tu\u00e9 77 personnes, dont 69 participants \u00e0 un camp d'\u00e9t\u00e9 de la Ligue de la jeunesse ouvri\u00e8re[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La STR-12, l'une des armes les plus avanc\u00e9es sur le plan technologique, a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e en 2012 \u00e0 Abu Dhabi gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une collaboration entre TRENDS Research et Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bien s\u00fbr, Vidino n'est pas responsable du massacre perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 par un psychopathe. Mais cela devrait \u00e9galement inciter \u00e0 la prudence dans l'utilisation des conseils du lobbyiste milanais. Le contraire est vrai : en Italie, par exemple, les services secrets l'ont port\u00e9 au poste de coordinateur de la Commission d'\u00e9tude sur la radicalisation et l'extr\u00e9misme djihadiste[47]<\/a>, qui existait pendant les ann\u00e9es des gouvernements dirig\u00e9s par Matteo Renzi et Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, et l'ont confirm\u00e9 dans l'actuelle Commission de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[49]<\/a>. Un poste dans lequel M. Vidino est en mesure d'influencer les d\u00e9cisions politiques en mati\u00e8re diplomatique et militaire, mais aussi de contr\u00f4ler les r\u00e9sidents musulmans individuels en Italie. Un poste similaire lui a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 attribu\u00e9 au Royaume-Uni, mais il a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9voqu\u00e9 peu apr\u00e8s[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le probl\u00e8me est encore plus prononc\u00e9 en Autriche, o\u00f9 Vidino est membre du conseil consultatif de l'Observatoire de l'islam du gouvernement autrichien[51]<\/a>, au nom duquel il a r\u00e9dig\u00e9 un rapport visant \u00e0 obtenir l'ostracisme contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[52]<\/a>, et collabore activement avec les services secrets, pour lesquels il a aid\u00e9 \u00e0 produire une carte des associations et des lieux de culte musulmans dans le pays[53]<\/a>. Ses \u00e9crits contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont donn\u00e9 lieu \u00e0 une op\u00e9ration de police en novembre 2020, dont l'objectif \u00e9tait de d\u00e9sarmer ce que Vidino consid\u00e8re comme de dangereuses cellules terroristes[54]<\/a>, et qui n'a donn\u00e9 aucun r\u00e9sultat : malgr\u00e9 les efforts de centaines de policiers et la brutalit\u00e9 utilis\u00e9e, tous les accus\u00e9s se sont r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9s innocents[55]<\/a>. Un de ces cas typiques o\u00f9, comme le dit le dicton, la plume des \u00e9crivains tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e des soldats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tout cela devrait faire r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir les politiciens europ\u00e9ens : le scandale des pots-de-vin \u00e0 Bruxelles ne montre pas seulement la faiblesse du syst\u00e8me politique de l'Union, mais il met \u00e9galement en \u00e9vidence la mani\u00e8re tr\u00e8s dangereuse dont des pays \"dangereux\" comme les \u00c9mirats arabes unis et l'Arabie saoudite peuvent provoquer des actes de violence polici\u00e8re ou d'injustice criminelle dans certains \u00c9tats, \u00e0 commencer par l'Italie, la Su\u00e8de et l'Autriche - des nations dans lesquelles l'EFD et Vidino ont non seulement d'excellents contacts, mais occupent \u00e9galement des postes op\u00e9rationnels dans les ganglions les plus sensibles de l'administration publique. Personnellement, cela me conforte dans mon opinion : l'UE n'a pas d'alli\u00e9s - ni la Russie, ni la Chine, ni les pays arabes, ni m\u00eame (et presque personne ne le sait) les \u00c9tats-Unis d'Am\u00e9rique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Il s'appelle Lorenzo Vidino, un Italien transplant\u00e9 en Am\u00e9rique, et il consacre sa vie \u00e0 essayer de convaincre le monde que les Palestiniens et leurs (tr\u00e8s rares) alli\u00e9s font partie d'un gigantesque complot visant \u00e0 renverser le monde chr\u00e9tien - par le fer et le feu. Selon lui, la population tourment\u00e9e des territoires occup\u00e9s, la bande de Gaza et la Cisjordanie, submerg\u00e9e chaque jour par les incursions militaires d'Isra\u00ebl, est au centre d'une organisation th\u00e9ocratique, dirig\u00e9e par l'Iran, qui am\u00e8ne la plan\u00e8te au bord de la troisi\u00e8me guerre mondiale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

C'est une affirmation qui, si elle n'avait pas de puissants partisans et des effets tragiques, serait risible. Les d\u00e9mocrates et les personnes tol\u00e9rantes ne sont pas l\u00e9gion dans le monde musulman, mais les professionnels comme Vidino ont pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : puisque la th\u00e9ocratie iranienne est, objectivement, un enfer, un r\u00e9gime m\u00e9di\u00e9val barbare et sanguinaire, la meilleure fa\u00e7on de discr\u00e9diter les pacifistes et les victimes de pers\u00e9cutions ethniques est de pr\u00e9tendre que les victimes sont des alli\u00e9s de T\u00e9h\u00e9ran, et qu'elles m\u00e9ritent donc d'\u00eatre punies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le levier que Vidino utilise pour d\u00e9cha\u00eener le monde contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans, la Palestine et ceux qui les soutiennent est celui du lobbying. Quelqu'un le paie pour le faire, et ce quelqu'un est un gouvernement (ou plusieurs forces politiques) qui a r\u00e9ussi \u00e0 l'inscrire sur la liste des commentateurs politiques accr\u00e9dit\u00e9s et des lobbyistes officiels \u00e0 Bruxelles - la capitale de l'Union europ\u00e9enne, o\u00f9 la corruption r\u00e8gne en ma\u00eetre, o\u00f9 le contr\u00f4le est comparable \u00e0 z\u00e9ro, et o\u00f9 les effets des interventions pour la d\u00e9fense d'int\u00e9r\u00eats sans rapport avec ceux du peuple europ\u00e9en sont plus efficaces - comme l'a d\u00e9montr\u00e9 la campagne m\u00e9diatique li\u00e9e \u00e0 la Coupe du monde au Qatar et l'explosion simultan\u00e9e d'une violence sans pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent contre le peuple iranien : un tournoi, r\u00e9alis\u00e9 gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 la corruption, qui est devenu le plus grand auto-goal des m\u00e9dias d'\u00c9tat du nouveau si\u00e8cle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Un autogolo comparable, pour ses effets de publicit\u00e9, \u00e0 l'invasion russe de l'Ukraine. Doha aura besoin de plusieurs ann\u00e9es pour faire oublier ce regrettable incident, et ses ennemis, \u00e0 Duba\u00ef et \u00e0 Riyad, feront tout pour qu'il ne soit pas oubli\u00e9. Mais cela ne suffit pas \u00e0 expliquer l'existence de ce lobby : l'extr\u00eame droite am\u00e9ricaine (c'est-\u00e0-dire celle qui est la plus li\u00e9e au fondamentalisme chr\u00e9tien) et l'extr\u00eame droite isra\u00e9lienne (celle qui est sioniste et qui, depuis des ann\u00e9es, est alli\u00e9e aux monarchies du Golfe Persique) soutiennent Vidino et d'autres influenceurs comme lui, parce qu'ils poussent \u00e0 la fin de la d\u00e9mocratie aux \u00c9tats-Unis : une t\u00e2che qui, il y a seulement vingt ans, aurait sembl\u00e9 bonne seulement pour une blague, et qui maintenant, apr\u00e8s l'attaque du Capitole le 6 janvier et la pr\u00e9sidence Trump, semble proche et possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Un jeune n\u00e9ocon est n\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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De gauche \u00e0 droite : Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, membre du personnel consultatif de la Commission europ\u00e9enne), John Duhig et Marwa Farid (EFD), trois des figures les plus influentes de la campagne m\u00e9diatique contre le Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dans l'\u00e9closion de nouvelles organisations d'extr\u00eame droite, li\u00e9es au nationalisme, \u00e0 la religion, ou simplement \u00e0 une vision mystique et antid\u00e9mocratique de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9, les \u00c9tats-Unis continuent d'\u00eatre le pays leader : celui qui inspire, influence et oblige le reste du monde \u00e0 suivre ses modes, ses caprices, ses erreurs. Les figures les plus marquantes de cette tendance sont des milliardaires comme Elon Musk, Peter Thiel et Donald Trump, mais autour d'eux fleurissent des personnages, comme Steve Bannon, qui se situent entre les th\u00e9oriciens d'un nouveau m\u00e9di\u00e9visme technocratique et les \u00e9p\u00e9es avec lesquelles les milliardaires pr\u00e9cit\u00e9s, en guerre les uns contre les autres, s'affrontent dans les journaux, sur le web et \u00e0 la t\u00e9l\u00e9vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino est l'un des plus importants d'entre eux : un expert des affaires du Moyen-Orient, qui se bat contre Elon Musk, contre les crypto-monnaies, contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[2]<\/a>. Ce sont des choses qui n'ont rien \u00e0 voir entre elles, mais l'une des caract\u00e9ristiques de cette nouvelle extr\u00eame droite est d'\u00eatre, comme les th\u00e9ories \u00e9nonc\u00e9es par Adolf Hitler, totalisante[3]<\/a>, et de pr\u00e9tendre expliquer le monde entier \u00e0 partir d'un seul postulat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'une des principales diff\u00e9rences entre ces nouveaux gourous et ceux (comme Hermann Schmitz) du nazisme est que l'ennemi n'est plus le juda\u00efsme, mais une fraction du monde arabe - celle repr\u00e9sent\u00e9e par les Fr\u00e8res musulmans, la Palestine, le printemps arabe, l'Iran et le Qatar : un chaudron de choses qui n'ont rien en commun les unes avec les autres[4]<\/a>. Un chaudron dans lequel Isra\u00ebl et le sionisme sont parfaitement \u00e0 l'aise, puisqu'ils font partie de l'\u00e9quipe men\u00e9e par les n\u00e9o-conservateurs de Donald Trump (qui ne repr\u00e9sentent qu'une fraction de l'extr\u00eame droite am\u00e9ricaine), le prince saoudien Bin Salman et le cheikh \u00e9mirati Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 \u00e0 Milan en 1977, Vidino a termin\u00e9 ses \u00e9tudes dans sa ville natale et a finalement obtenu l'une des sp\u00e9cialisations les plus exclusives au monde : celle de la Fletcher School de l'universit\u00e9 Tufts \u00e0 Medford (Massachussetts) [6]<\/a>, qui accueille chaque ann\u00e9e 230 \u00e9tudiants d'excellence mondiale et qui pr\u00e9pare depuis 90 ans des diplomates, des militaires et des lobbyistes pro-am\u00e9ricains travaillant au Moyen-Orient[7]<\/a>. Une \u00e9cole qui enseigne tous les maux possibles de la Russie de Poutine[8]<\/a> et la corruption dans le sport, en liant (\u00e0 juste titre, je pense) l'esprit de l'organisation des Jeux olympiques de Berlin de 1936 avec tant d'\u00e9v\u00e9nements sportifs de classe mondiale (\u00e0 commencer par la Coupe du monde en Argentine en 1978)[9]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00c0 la fin de ses \u00e9tudes, apr\u00e8s avoir \u00e9galement effectu\u00e9 une p\u00e9riode de formation dans le plus important lobby de l'industrie militaire am\u00e9ricaine (l'\u00e9cole de la RAND Corporation \u00e0 Arlington, en Virginie, au Pentagone[10]<\/a>), Vidino a choisi d'entrer \u00e0 la EFD (Fondation europ\u00e9enne pour la d\u00e9mocratie[11]<\/a>) pour y d\u00e9fendre les int\u00e9r\u00eats nationaux am\u00e9ricains : une organisation bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Bruxelles, active depuis 2005, qui finance la propagande (au sein du Parlement europ\u00e9en[12]<\/a>) des th\u00e8ses n\u00e9oconservatrices am\u00e9ricaines, selon lesquelles il existe de \"bons\" musulmans (Arabie, \u00c9gypte et \u00c9mirats) et de \"mauvais\" musulmans (les Fr\u00e8res musulmans et une liste d'organisations pacifistes li\u00e9es aux mouvements d\u00e9mocratiques dits du printemps arabe, actifs principalement en Angleterre, en Autriche et en Su\u00e8de) - qui, selon l'EFD, sont li\u00e9s au terrorisme fondamentaliste. Une th\u00e8se d\u00e9mentie par les faits, mais fonctionnelle \u00e0 l'alliance entre Isra\u00ebl, l'Arabie Saoudite et les Emirats contre tous les adversaires des monarchies du monde arabe[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une vid\u00e9oconf\u00e9rence de Jonathan Schanzer, l'un des principaux collaborateurs du pr\u00e9sident isra\u00e9lien Netanyahu, leader du FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'EFD est \u00e9galement financ\u00e9, depuis 2011, par des fonds provenant du budget de l'UE (environ 160 000 euros de contributions par an) et du gouvernement am\u00e9ricain (environ un demi-million de dollars) [15]<\/a>, et est dirig\u00e9 par Roberta Bonazzi, qui est \u00e9galement l'un des fondateurs de l'organisation[16]<\/a>. Mme Bonazzi, dont on sait qu'elle est \u00e0 la solde de plusieurs organisations d'extr\u00eame droite qui r\u00e9mun\u00e8rent l'EFD ou l'une de ses soci\u00e9t\u00e9s de conseil priv\u00e9es, comme Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, est c\u00e9l\u00e8bre pour son combat m\u00e9diatique contre le Hezbollah et sa tentative de lier cette organisation terroriste au mouvement de lib\u00e9ration de la Palestine et \u00e0 tous les jeunes musulmans qui luttent pour la d\u00e9mocratie dans le monde arabe[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'activit\u00e9 principale de M. Bonazzi consiste \u00e0 diriger la propagande politique pro-arabe et pro-am\u00e9ricaine dans plusieurs pays europ\u00e9ens, en premier lieu l'Arm\u00e9nie et l'Azerba\u00efdjan[19]<\/a>. Selon Bonazzi, derri\u00e8re ceux qui r\u00e9clament la d\u00e9mocratie, il n'y a pas le r\u00eave d'une g\u00e9n\u00e9ration d'Arabes qui veulent la fin du chauvinisme islamique radical, mais pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment son contraire : la th\u00e9ocratie iranienne, qui combat les monarchies du Golfe, les consid\u00e9rant (comme les Am\u00e9ricains l'aiment) comme modernes, libertaires et progressistes. En ce sens, Bonazzi travaille \u00e9troitement avec l'ambassadeur des \u00c9mirats \u00e0 Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, l'un des principaux collaborateurs de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, l'homme cl\u00e9 du pouvoir saoudien et \u00e9mirati dans le monde[22]<\/a>, marchand d'armes[23]<\/a> et ami et conseiller influent de Donald Trump sur les questions du Moyen-Orient[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En outre, l'EFD est \u00e9troitement li\u00e9 (sur le plan politique et organisationnel) \u00e0 la FDD (Fondation pour la d\u00e9fense des d\u00e9mocraties[25]<\/a>), qui, aux \u00c9tats-Unis, s'efforce d'obtenir des fonds pour l'EFD[26]<\/a>. Le FDD est l'une des organisations les plus radicales en faveur d'Isra\u00ebl et contre les pays arabes qui n'ont pas d'accord avec Tel Aviv, en premier lieu l'Iran[27]<\/a>. L'objectif du FDD est de pousser Washington, sur la base d'affirmations non fond\u00e9es (et souvent ouvertement fausses), \u00e0 mener des op\u00e9rations militaires en Syrie, en Iran, au Liban et dans d'autres pays du Moyen-Orient[28]<\/a>. Une th\u00e8se favorite des dirigeants du FDD consiste \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein et Oussama Ben Laden comme les dirigeants de la m\u00eame organisation terroriste responsable de l'attaque des tours jumelles \u00e0 New York le 11 septembre 2001 : le mouvement pour la lib\u00e9ration de la Palestine !!![29]<\/a>  Comme il est \u00e9vident, les dirigeants du FDD (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz et Jonathan Schanzer) sont des partisans ouverts de Donald Trump et de sa ligne sur les questions du Moyen-Orient[30]<\/a>. En 2009 d\u00e9j\u00e0, le FDD a vers\u00e9 pr\u00e8s d'un demi-million de dollars \u00e0 l'EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L'inspiration de Breivik<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Le maniaque norv\u00e9gien Anders Behring Breivik se r\u00e9f\u00e8re \u00e0 Hitler pour expliquer le massacre qu'il a perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 en 2012, mais cite aussi les textes de Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entre-temps, Vidino est devenu un orateur politique populaire. Son ami Al Otaiba l'a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 au ministre des Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res des EAU Abdullah Bin Zayed en 2017, apr\u00e8s que Vidino ait beaucoup travaill\u00e9 avec Quiller Consultants, le cabinet de lobbying bas\u00e9 \u00e0 Londres qui place des articles pro-Abu Dhabi dans la presse britannique[33]<\/a>. Dans le magazine trimestriel Middle East Quarterly, Vidino a affirm\u00e9 que \"l'Europe est devenue un incubateur de la pens\u00e9e et du d\u00e9veloppement politique islamistes\" : selon lui, les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont construit un \"vaste r\u00e9seau bien organis\u00e9 de mosqu\u00e9es, d'organisations caritatives et d'organisations islamiques\", dont le but serait d'\u00e9tendre le radicalisme islamique \u00e0 l'ensemble de l'Occident[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ces th\u00e8ses ne sont pas surprenantes. Son travail de lobbyiste \u00e0 l'EFD a conduit Vidino \u00e0 la prochaine \u00e9tape de sa carri\u00e8re : celle d'associ\u00e9 de TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, une agence d'\u00c9tat \u00e9miratie aux objectifs ambitieux : (a) analyser les menaces militaires, m\u00e9diatiques et cybern\u00e9tiques que repr\u00e9sentent les ennemis des monarchies du golfe Persique et impliquer les \u00c9tats-Unis dans les mesures visant \u00e0 r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 ces menaces ; b) d\u00e9signer et r\u00e9pertorier les adversaires des monarchies du golfe (d\u00e9finis tout court comme des \"terroristes\"), exercer des pressions diplomatiques pour qu'ils soient poursuivis, publier ce qu'il est possible de publier pour les discr\u00e9diter ; c) identifier, dans chaque pays, des alli\u00e9s possibles et les contacter ; d) identifier les personnes qui ont des int\u00e9r\u00eats dans les monarchies du golfe Persique et les contacter. d) pr\u00e9parer les \u00c9mirats \u00e0 un conflit militaire, en analysant ses co\u00fbts et ses avantages, et \u00e9valuer les \u00e9tapes n\u00e9cessaires pour s'assurer une place \u00e0 la table o\u00f9 sont distribu\u00e9s les lucratifs contrats de reconstruction ; e) financer des projets d'intelligence artificielle et de cybern\u00e9tique ayant des applications militaires utiles ; f) an\u00e9antir les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ; g) identifier des projets d'investissement \u00e9conomique et infrastructurel dans des pays pr\u00eats \u00e0 recevoir le message de l'islam tel qu'il est pratiqu\u00e9 dans le golfe Persique[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financ\u00e9 par le gotha militaire et p\u00e9trolier du Golfe Persique[37]<\/a>, est dirig\u00e9 par Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, qui a travaill\u00e9 pendant des ann\u00e9es comme conseiller acad\u00e9mique pour l'ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, fond\u00e9 en 1994 par Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan dans le but de justifier le r\u00e9armement massif des \u00c9mirats et aujourd'hui dirig\u00e9 par le chef des lobbyistes \u00e9miratis en Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi) [38]<\/a>. L'ECSSR travaille pour la Tawazun Holding de Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. En ao\u00fbt 2017, Tawazun avait vers\u00e9 20 millions de dollars \u00e0 l'ECSSR, et l'ECSSR les a vers\u00e9s \u00e0 l'Institut du Moyen-Orient \u00e0 Washington : une association d'anciens militaires am\u00e9ricains, qui a \u00e0 son tour vers\u00e9 cette somme \u00e0 divers g\u00e9n\u00e9raux et politiciens pour donner un coup de fouet aux contrats militaires entre les \u00c9tats-Unis et les EAU[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pour faire simple : TRENDS et ECSSR sont deux v\u00e9hicules utilis\u00e9s pour corrompre les politiciens et les militaires occidentaux, et Vidino s'emploie \u00e0 en sugg\u00e9rer de nouveaux[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, en tout cas, a \u00e9t\u00e9 impliqu\u00e9 dans plusieurs scandales de trafic d'armes[41]<\/a> et dans l'achat de logiciels espions particuli\u00e8rement pointus, de Pegasus \u00e0 DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. La diligence avec laquelle Vidino et ses coll\u00e8gues (issus d'associations li\u00e9es aux \u00c9mirats arabes unis) op\u00e8rent est telle que m\u00eame dans le golfe Persique, des voix se sont \u00e9lev\u00e9es pour demander la fin des mensonges, avant que ces th\u00e8ses, avanc\u00e9es par Vidino, ne deviennent l'arme d'un quelconque imprudent[43]<\/a>. Trop tard : les th\u00e8ses du lobbyiste milanais ont \u00e9t\u00e9 reprises par Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, le fou qui, en 2012, a tu\u00e9 77 personnes, dont 69 participants \u00e0 un camp d'\u00e9t\u00e9 de la Ligue de la jeunesse ouvri\u00e8re[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La STR-12, l'une des armes les plus avanc\u00e9es sur le plan technologique, a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e en 2012 \u00e0 Abu Dhabi gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une collaboration entre TRENDS Research et Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bien s\u00fbr, Vidino n'est pas responsable du massacre perp\u00e9tr\u00e9 par un psychopathe. Mais cela devrait \u00e9galement inciter \u00e0 la prudence dans l'utilisation des conseils du lobbyiste milanais. Le contraire est vrai : en Italie, par exemple, les services secrets l'ont port\u00e9 au poste de coordinateur de la Commission d'\u00e9tude sur la radicalisation et l'extr\u00e9misme djihadiste[47]<\/a>, qui existait pendant les ann\u00e9es des gouvernements dirig\u00e9s par Matteo Renzi et Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, et l'ont confirm\u00e9 dans l'actuelle Commission de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[49]<\/a>. Un poste dans lequel M. Vidino est en mesure d'influencer les d\u00e9cisions politiques en mati\u00e8re diplomatique et militaire, mais aussi de contr\u00f4ler les r\u00e9sidents musulmans individuels en Italie. Un poste similaire lui a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 attribu\u00e9 au Royaume-Uni, mais il a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9voqu\u00e9 peu apr\u00e8s[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le probl\u00e8me est encore plus prononc\u00e9 en Autriche, o\u00f9 Vidino est membre du conseil consultatif de l'Observatoire de l'islam du gouvernement autrichien[51]<\/a>, au nom duquel il a r\u00e9dig\u00e9 un rapport visant \u00e0 obtenir l'ostracisme contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans[52]<\/a>, et collabore activement avec les services secrets, pour lesquels il a aid\u00e9 \u00e0 produire une carte des associations et des lieux de culte musulmans dans le pays[53]<\/a>. Ses \u00e9crits contre les Fr\u00e8res musulmans ont donn\u00e9 lieu \u00e0 une op\u00e9ration de police en novembre 2020, dont l'objectif \u00e9tait de d\u00e9sarmer ce que Vidino consid\u00e8re comme de dangereuses cellules terroristes[54]<\/a>, et qui n'a donn\u00e9 aucun r\u00e9sultat : malgr\u00e9 les efforts de centaines de policiers et la brutalit\u00e9 utilis\u00e9e, tous les accus\u00e9s se sont r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9s innocents[55]<\/a>. Un de ces cas typiques o\u00f9, comme le dit le dicton, la plume des \u00e9crivains tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e des soldats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tout cela devrait faire r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir les politiciens europ\u00e9ens : le scandale des pots-de-vin \u00e0 Bruxelles ne montre pas seulement la faiblesse du syst\u00e8me politique de l'Union, mais il met \u00e9galement en \u00e9vidence la mani\u00e8re tr\u00e8s dangereuse dont des pays \"dangereux\" comme les \u00c9mirats arabes unis et l'Arabie saoudite peuvent provoquer des actes de violence polici\u00e8re ou d'injustice criminelle dans certains \u00c9tats, \u00e0 commencer par l'Italie, la Su\u00e8de et l'Autriche - des nations dans lesquelles l'EFD et Vidino ont non seulement d'excellents contacts, mais occupent \u00e9galement des postes op\u00e9rationnels dans les ganglions les plus sensibles de l'administration publique. Personnellement, cela me conforte dans mon opinion : l'UE n'a pas d'alli\u00e9s - ni la Russie, ni la Chine, ni les pays arabes, ni m\u00eame (et presque personne ne le sait) les \u00c9tats-Unis d'Am\u00e9rique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Le stylo qui tue plus que l'\u00e9p\u00e9e","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-stylo-qui-tue-plus-que-lepee","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6724","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6716,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:50:59","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"TRENDS<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

His name is Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian transplanted to America, and he dedicates his life to trying to convince the world that the Palestinians and their (very few) allies are part of a gigantic plot to overthrow the Christian world - with iron and fire. According to him, the tormented population of the Occupied Territories, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, overwhelmed every day by Israel's military incursions, is at the centre of a theocratic organisation, led by Iran, that is bringing the planet to the brink of World War III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a claim that, if it did not have powerful supporters and tragic effects, would be laughable. Democrats and tolerant people do not abound in the Muslim world, but professionals like Vidino have precisely that aim: since Iran's theocracy is, objectively, a hellhole, a barbaric and bloody medieval regime, the best way to discredit pacifists and victims of ethnic persecution is to claim that the victims are allies of Tehran, and therefore deserve punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leverage Vidino uses to unleash the world against the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine and those who support them is that of lobbying. Someone is paying him to do it, and that someone is a government (or several political forces) that has managed to put him on the list of accredited political commentators and official lobbyists in Brussels - the capital of the European Union, where corruption reigns supreme, control is comparable to zero, and the effects of interventions in defence of interests unrelated to those of the European people are more efficient - as demonstrated by the media campaign linked to the World Cup in Qatar and the simultaneous explosion of unprecedented violence against the Iranian people: a tournament, achieved thanks to corruption, that turned into the biggest state media self-goal of the new century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An autogolo comparable, for its publicity effects, only to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Doha will need years to make this regrettable incident forgotten, and its enemies, in Dubai and Riyadh, will do everything to ensure that it is not forgotten. But this is not enough to explain the existence of this lobby: the American extreme right (i.e. the one most closely linked to Christian fundamentalism) and the Israeli extreme right (the Zionist one, which for years has been allied with the Persian Gulf monarchies) support Vidino and other influencers like him, because they are pushing for the end of democracy in the United States: a task that, only twenty years ago, would have seemed good only for a joke, and that now, after the attack on the Capitol on 6 January and the Trump presidency, seems close and possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young neocon is born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Rodrigo Ballester (MCC Budapest, member of the advisory staff of the European Commission), John Duhig and Marwa Farid (EFD), three of the most influential figures in the media campaign against Qatar[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the blossoming of new extreme right-wing organisations, linked to nationalism, religion, or simply to a mystical and anti-democratic vision of society, the United States continues to be the leading country: the one that inspires, influences and obliges the rest of the world to follow its fashions, its whims, its mistakes. The most prominent figures in this trend are billionaires such as Elon Musk, Frank Thiel and Donald Trump, but around them flourish characters, such as Steve Bannon, who are something between the theorists of a new technocratic medievalism and the swords with which the aforementioned billionaires, at war with each other, fight each other in the newspapers, on the web and on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo Vidino[2]<\/a> is one of the most important among them: an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, fighting against Elon Musk, against cryptocurrencies, against the Islamic Brotherhood. These seem like things that have nothing to do with each other, but one of the characteristics of this new right-wing extremism is to be, like the theories enunciated by Adolf Hitler, totalising[3]<\/a>, and claiming to explain the whole world from a single assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the main differences between these new gurus and those (such as Hermann Schmitz) of Nazism is that the enemy is no longer Judaism, but a fraction within the Arab world - that represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, Palestine, the Arab Spring, Iran and Qatar: a cauldron of things that have nothing in common with each other[4]<\/a>. A cauldron in which Israel and Zionism are perfectly at home, since they are part of the line-up led by Donald Trump's neo-Cons (who are only a fraction of American right-wing extremism), Saudi Prince Bin Salman and UAE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Milan in 1977, Vidino completed his studies in his hometown and, in the end, obtained one of the most exclusive specialisation places in the world: that of the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medford (Massachussetts)[6]<\/a>, which accepts 230 students of world excellence every year, and which for 90 years has been preparing pro-American diplomats, military officers and lobbyists working in the Middle East[7]<\/a>. A school that teaches all the possible evils of Putin's Russia[8]<\/a> and corruption in sport, linking (rightly, I think) the spirit of the organisation of the 1936 Berlin Olympics with so many world-class sporting events (starting with the World Cup in Argentina in 1978).[9]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of his studies, after also completing a period of education in the most important lobby of the American military industry (the RAND Corporation school in Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon[10]<\/a>), Vidino chose to go to the EFD (European Foundation for Democracy[11]<\/a>) to lobby for American national interests: a Brussels-based organisation, active since 2005, which finances the propaganda (within the EU Parliament[12]<\/a>) of the American neocon theses, according to which there are 'good' Muslims (Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates) and 'bad' Muslims (the Islamic Brotherhood and a list of pacifist organisations linked to the democratic movements known as the Arab Spring, active mainly in England, Austria and Sweden) - which, according to the EFD, are linked to fundamentalist terrorism. A thesis belied by the facts, but functional to the alliance between Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates against all the adversaries of the monarchies of the Arab world[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?518040-1\/gaza-conflict-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video conference of Jonathan Schanzer, one of the main collaborators of Israeli President Netanyahu, leader of the FDD[14]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EFD is also paid for, as of 2011, with money from the EU budget (around \u20ac160,000 in contributions per year) and the US government (around half a million dollars[15]<\/a>), and is headed by Roberta Bonazzi, who is also one of the founders of the organisation[16]<\/a>. Bonazzi, who is known to be on the payroll of several extreme right-wing organisations that pay the EFD or one of its private consulting firms, such as Adelaide Consulting[17]<\/a>, is famous for her media fight against Hezbollah and her attempt to link this terrorist organisation to the Palestine liberation movement and to all young Muslims fighting for democracy throughout the Arab world[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonazzi's main activity consists of directing pro-Arab and pro-American political propaganda in several European countries, first and foremost Armenia and Azerbaijan[19]<\/a>. According to Bonazzi, behind those calling for democracy there is not the dream of a generation of Arabs who want the end of radical Islamic chauvinism, but precisely its opposite: the Iranian theocracy, which fights the Gulf monarchies, considering them (as the Americans like it) modern, libertarian and progressive. In this sense, Bonazzi works closely with the Ambassador of the Emirates in Washington, Youssef Al Otaiba[20]<\/a>, one of the main collaborators of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[21]<\/a>, the key man of Saudi and Emirati power in the world[22]<\/a>, arms trader[23]<\/a> and influential friend and advisor of Donald Trump on Middle Eastern issues[24]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, the EFD is closely linked (politically and organisationally) with the FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies[25]<\/a>), which in the US works to procure money for the EFD[26]<\/a>. FDD is one of the most radical organisations in favour of Israel and against Arab countries that do not have an agreement with Tel Aviv, first and foremost Iran[27]<\/a>. FDD's goal is to push Washington, based on unsubstantiated (and often openly false) claims, into military operations in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries[28]<\/a>. A favourite thesis of the FDD leaders is to consider Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, and Osama Bin Laden as leaders of the same terrorist organisation responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001: the movement for the liberation of Palestine!!![29]<\/a>  As is obvious, the FDD leaders (Clifford May, Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer) are open supporters of Donald Trump and his line on Middle East issues[30]<\/a>. Already in 2009, the FDD paid almost half a million dollars to the EFD[31]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breivik's inspirer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Norwegian maniac Anders Behring Breivik refers to Hitler to explain the massacre he carried out in 2012, but also quotes the texts of Lorenzo Vidino[32]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Vidino has become a popular political speaker. His friend Al Otaiba introduced him to the UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed in 2017, after Vidino had worked extensively with Quiller Consultants, the London-based lobbying firm responsible for placing pro-Abu Dhabi articles in the British press[33]<\/a>. In the quarterly magazine Middle East Quarterly, Vidino argued that 'Europe has become an incubator of Islamist thought and political development': according to him, the Muslim Brotherhood has built a 'large and well-organised network of mosques, charities, and Islamic organisations', the aim of which would be to extend Islamic radicalism throughout the West[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These theses are not surprising. His work as a lobbyist at EFD led Vidino to the next station in his career: that of associate at TRENDS Research & Security[35]<\/a>, an Emirati state agency with ambitious goals: (a) to analyse the military, media and cyber threats posed by the enemies of the Persian Gulf monarchies and to involve the United States in measures to respond to these threats; (b) to point out and index the Gulf monarchies' adversaries (defined tout-court as 'terrorists'), to exert diplomatic pressure for them to be prosecuted, to publish what it can to discredit them; (c) to identify, in each country, possible allies and to contact them d) prepare the Emirates for a military conflict, analysing its costs and benefits, and evaluate the steps necessary to secure a place at the table where lucrative reconstruction contracts are distributed; e) finance artificial intelligence and cybernetic projects that have useful military applications; f) annihilate the Muslim Brotherhood; g) identify economic and infrastructural investment projects in countries ready to receive the message of Islam as practised in the Persian Gulf[36]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRENDS Research, financed by the Persian Gulf's military and oil Gotha[37]<\/a>, is led by Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, who for years worked as an academic advisor for ECSSR (Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research, founded in 1994 by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the aim of justifying the massive rearmament of the Emirates and today led by the head of the Emirati lobbyists in Europe, Muhammed Al Nuaimi)[38]<\/a>. The ECSSR works for Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan's Tawazun Holding. In August 2017, Tawazun had paid $20 million to the ECSSR, and the ECSSR paid it to the Middle East Institute in Washington: an association of former US military personnel, which in turn paid this sum to various generals and politicians to kick-start military contracts between the US and the UAE[39]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put simply: TRENDS and ECSSR are two vehicles used to bribe Western politicians and military personnel, and Vidino works to suggest new ones[40]<\/a>. Tawazun, in any case, has been implicated in several arms trafficking scandals[41]<\/a> and the purchase of particularly cutting-edge spyware products, from Pegasus to DarkMatter[42]<\/a>. The diligence with which Vidino and his colleagues (from associations linked to the United Arab Emirates) operate is such that even in the Persian Gulf, voices have been raised calling for an end to the lies, before those theses, put forward by Vidino, become the weapon used by some reckless person[43]<\/a>. Too late: the Milanese lobbyist's theses were taken up by Anders Behring Breivik[44]<\/a>, the madman who, in 2012, killed 77 people, including 69 participants in a summer camp of the Workers' Youth League[45]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The STR-12, one of the most technologically advanced weapons developed in 2012 in Abu Dhabi through a collaboration between TRENDS Research and Tawazun Holding[46]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Vidino is not to blame for the massacre carried out by a psychopath. But this should also inspire caution in using the Milanese lobbyist's advice. The opposite is true: in Italy, for example, the secret services brought him to the position of coordinator of the Study Commission on Radicalisation and Jihadist Extremism[47]<\/a>, which existed during the years of the governments led by Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni[48]<\/a>, and confirmed him in the current Security Commission[49]<\/a>. A position in which Vidino is in a position to influence political decisions in diplomatic and military matters, but also policing individual Muslim residents in Italy. A similar position was also assigned to him in the UK, but was revoked shortly afterwards[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue is even more pronounced in Austria, where Vidino is a member of the advisory board of the Austrian government's Observatory on Islam[51]<\/a>, on behalf of which he has written a report aimed at obtaining ostracism against the Muslim Brotherhood[52]<\/a>, and actively collaborates with the secret service, for which he has helped to produce a map of Muslim associations and places of worship in the country[53]<\/a>. His writings against the Muslim Brotherhood led to a police operation in November 2020, the aim of which was to disarm what Vidino considers to be dangerous terrorist cells[54]<\/a>, and which did not yield any results: despite the efforts of hundreds of policemen and the blunt brutality used, all the accused turned out to be innocent[55]<\/a>. One of those typical cases where, as the saying goes, the pen of the writers kills more than the sword of the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this should make European politicians think: the Brussels bribery scandal not only shows the weakness of the Union's political system, but also points to a very dangerous way in which 'dangerous' countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia can provoke acts of police violence or criminal injustice in individual states, starting with Italy, Sweden and Austria - nations in which the EFD and Vidino not only have excellent contacts, but also now hold operational positions in the most sensitive ganglia of the state administration. Personally, this comforts me in my opinion: the EU has no allies - not Russia, not China, not the Arab countries and not even (and hardly anyone is aware of this) the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/friendsofeurope\/27295782627<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7008828782933372928\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/119\/elon-musk-s-warning-about-global-deflation-how-will-cryptocurrencies-be-affected-if-this-happens?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/vidino-com.translate.goog\/news\/64\/another-company-owned-by-elon-musk-started-accepting-dogecoin?_x_tr_sl=fa&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/feuilleton\/muslimbruderschaft-die-unheimlichen-brueder-ld.1653391<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ifz-muenchen.de\/mein-kampf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/ictidc.wixsite.com\/ict19\/lorenzo-vidino<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.fpri.org\/contributor\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> THE NEW COLD WAR | IBI World UK<\/a> ; IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a> ; PERSIAN GULF: THE WAR AFTER THE ARMISTICE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; GOOD BROTHER AND BAD BROTHER: HOW THE AL-NAHYAN DYNASTY HIDES ITS TRUE FACE | IBI World UK<\/a> ; JONATHAN GRAY: PARIS HAS ITS NEW RICHELIEU | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Robert S. Leiken, \u201cEurope\u2019s angry Muslims: the revolt oft he second generation<\/em>\u201d, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, pages 284-289<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/combatting-russian-disinformation-0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/news-events\/news\/qatar-and-question-sports-diplomacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rand.org\/about\/locations.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.poliziapenitenziaria.it\/public-post-deradicalizzazione-dei-jihadisti-e-politiche-europee-7267-asp\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/esteri\/2016\/12\/29\/news\/terrorismo-islam-sicurezza-intelligence-europa-112883\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Farid Hafez, \u201cMuslim Civil Society Under Attack: The European Foundation for Democracy's Role in Defaming and Delegitimizing Muslim Civil Society\u201d, Bruxelles 2018: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-319-95237-6_7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/team\/jonathan-schanzer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/transparencyregister\/public\/consultation\/displaylobbyist.do?id=70156146692-35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.europeandemocracy.eu\/our-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/eng.majalla.com\/2017\/06\/article55253960\/founder-of-the-brussels-based-european-foundation-for-democracy-sleeper<\/a> ; https:\/\/jcrir.ut.ac.ir\/article_83144_fb064c7a1664d2ca93129e7077481949.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.civilnet.am\/en\/news\/388742\/european-friends-of-who\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/world\/the-americas\/bush-welcomes-new-ambassador-to-us-1.228263\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67, 73<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a> , pages 49\/59, 66\/67<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> IF ABU DHABI BELIEVES TO \u201cGUIDE\u201d DONALD TRUMP | IBI World UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdd.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> Tony Smith, \u201cA Pact with the Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise\u201d, Routledge, London 2007, page 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Christopher Bail, \u201cTerrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream\u201d, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2015, pages 70\u201371; Sarah Marusek, \"The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements\", in \u201cWhat is Islamophobia?\u201d, Pluto Press, London 2017, pages 189\u2013206<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180205131158\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-iran-war.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141106221421\/http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2011\/07\/19\/271431\/fdd-donors\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2310555195879827<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kc6Qsz6-z4<\/a> ; https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jonathan-schanzer-even-democrats-agree-with-much-of-trumps-foreign-policy-legacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/a-decade-after-norway-massacre-breivik-who-killed-77-seeks-parole.928642<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/687\/the-muslim-brotherhoods-conquest-of-europe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - Dr. Lorenzo Vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> TRENDS Research and Advisory - About Us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 82-88<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> DIRECTOR GENERAL STATEMENT | Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ecssr.ae)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> Weapons Money Intended For Economic Development Being Secretly Diverted to Lobbying (theintercept.com)<\/a> ;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> Le-Lobby-Anti-Qatar-1.pdf (ibiworld.eu)<\/a>, pages 71\/79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> UAE Armed Forces places Dh1.8bn weapons order with Tawazun (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Weapons-systems plant for Abu Dhabi (thenationalnews.com)<\/a> ; Tawazun creates African partnership for UAE's precision-weapon manufacture | Times Aerospace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> The UAE\u2019s covert web of spies, hackers and mercenary death squads (trtworld.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20171109-exclusive-uae-works-to-defeat-voices-of-islamism-in-the-west-reveal-leaked-emails\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/bridge.georgetown.edu\/research\/factsheet-lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> DAD International, \u201cUndue influence: an investigative Report on foreign interference of the United Arab Emirates in the democratic processes of the European Union<\/em>\u201d, Droit au Droit, Bruxelles 2022, pages 76-79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.armyrecognition.com\/milipol_qatar_2012_show_daily_news_pictures\/the_new_tawazun_advanced_defense_systems_tads_str-12_precision_rifle_at_milipol_qatar_2012_1010125.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfoglio.it\/politica\/2022\/05\/06\/news\/orsini-chi-ora-gli-ex-vertici-dei-servizi-segreti-si-rimpallano-le-responsabilita-sul-prof-anto-nato-3977422\/<\/a> ; http:\/\/documenti.camera.it\/leg17\/resoconti\/commissioni\/bollettini\/html\/2015\/03\/09\/0204\/comunic.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/dr-lorenzo-vidino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/formiche.net\/2015\/07\/perche-isis-terrorizza-anche-la-turchia-lanalisi-vidino\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/fr\/news\/academic-hired-home-office-denies-reports-having-seen-muslim-brotherhood-review-2009898252<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/author\/lorenzo-vidino\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/religion.orf.at\/stories\/3201806\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/extremism.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs2191\/f\/MB%20in%20Austria-%20Print.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/05\/29\/austria-islam-map\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wienerzeitung.at\/nachrichten\/politik\/oesterreich\/2163292-Muslimbrueder-verbreiten-ein-Opfernarrativ.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.derstandard.at\/story\/2000139261364\/operation-luxor-entscheidender-fehlschlag<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"The pen that kills more than the sword","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-pen-that-kills-more-than-the-sword","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6716","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6710,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:47:46","post_content":"\n

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Um in der post-ideologischen Politik Karriere zu machen, braucht man eher Geld und einflussreiche Freunde als Ideen. Wer sich also f\u00fcr eine Karriere als politischer Beamter entscheidet und keine gro\u00dfe Regierungsverantwortung anstrebt, hat eine F\u00fclle von M\u00f6glichkeiten und Chancen, sofern er eine solide Ausgangsbasis hat. Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr diese Art von Karriere ist der deutsche Bundestagsabgeordnete Gero Hocker - ein Name, den niemand kennt, aber der Sprecher einer der Regierungsparteien (der FDP, d.h. der liberalen Partei) f\u00fcr alle Angelegenheiten, die die Landwirtschaft und davor die Fischerei betreffen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker, Jahrgang 1975, Diplom-Volkswirt aus Bremen, Master in New York, Canton und Adelaide, sitzt seit 2017 im Bundestag[1]<\/a> und ist gerade Sprecher f\u00fcr Ern\u00e4hrung der FDP-Fraktion[2]<\/a>. Hocker hat eine sehr solide Organisation hinter sich: Er ist Pr\u00e4sident des Deutschen Fischerei-Verbandes (DFV)[3]<\/a>. Bevor er in die Politik ging, war Hocker Finanzberater[4]<\/a> und Versicherungsberater[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In der Politik achtet Hocker nicht auf \u00c4u\u00dferlichkeiten: Im August 2020 trifft er sich mit Vertretern der Tabak- und D\u00fcngemittelindustrie: Jan M\u00fccke, Generaldirektor des Verbands der Tabakindustrie, und Ludwig Willnegger, der die Interessen des russischen D\u00fcngemittelherstellers Eurochem in der Europ\u00e4ischen Union vertritt. Sie bezahlten f\u00fcr ein Live-Facebook-Gespr\u00e4ch mit Hocker, der sich (obwohl agrarpolitischer Sprecher der FDP) unter diesen Umst\u00e4nden als alles andere als unbequemer Gespr\u00e4chspartner f\u00fcr die beiden Lobbyisten erwies[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Firma, die f\u00fcr die Organisation des Treffens bezahlt wurde, ist die Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, deren Inhaber Benjamin Berg und Christof Pein sind: Berg leitet das Wahlb\u00fcro von Hocker in Achim, das zu seinem Wahlkreis geh\u00f6rt[7]<\/a>, w\u00e4hrend Pein Leiter des Berliner B\u00fcros von Hocker[8]<\/a> und Stadtrat in Achim ist[9]<\/a>. Das Treffen findet zu einer Zeit statt, in der sich der Bundestag mit Werbeverboten f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie befasst, w\u00e4hrend die EU plant, den Einsatz von D\u00fcngemitteln um 20 % zu reduzieren[10]<\/a>. Die emp\u00f6rten Reaktionen aller politischen Kr\u00e4fte im Lande, auch seiner eigenen Partei, veranlassten Hocker, die Aufl\u00f6sung der Feinschliff Consulting zu fordern[11]<\/a>, die 2021 unter gleichem Namen und gleichen Eigent\u00fcmern, aber in der Kleinstadt Verden wiederer\u00f6ffnet wird[12]<\/a>. Noch heute nehmen Berg und Pein Kontakt zu potenziellen Gespr\u00e4chspartnern auf und versprechen ihnen gegen eine angemessene Verg\u00fctung Treffen auf der Webplattform von Hocker. Der Verkauf von Gespr\u00e4chen mit einem Abgeordneten an Lobbyisten wird auch von Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, Sprecher des Berliner Vereins Lobbycontrol, als bedenklich bezeichnet[14]<\/a>. Aber es passiert nichts, Hocker kann weiter auf seine Art Politik machen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Auswirkungen: Im Bundestag appelliert Hocker) gegen strengere Regeln f\u00fcr die Tabakindustrie. Was die Firma Eurochem betrifft (die durch die europ\u00e4ische 20%ige K\u00fcrzung des D\u00fcngemitteleinsatzes Milliarden von Euro verlieren w\u00fcrde), so schreibt Hocker einen offenen Brief an die damalige Umweltministerin Svenja Schulze (SPD), in dem er die Notwendigkeit betont, neue Technologien zur Sicherung der Ernten einzusetzen[15]<\/a>. Dies ist nicht das erste Mal: Bereits im Mai 2020 stellte sich Hocker auf die Seite der deutschen Landwirte, die gegen Schulzes Aussagen \u00fcber die negativen Umweltauswirkungen des massiven Einsatzes von D\u00fcngemitteln und Pestiziden protestierten[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC-Video, in dem die Aufnahme der Hisbollah in die Liste der von der Europ\u00e4ischen Union als Terroristen anerkannten Gruppen gefordert wird[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker h\u00e4lt sich den R\u00fccken frei: Er ist Mitglied des AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, eines Forschungsinstituts des American Jewish Committee (AJC), das die Integration und die Lebensbedingungen des j\u00fcdischen Volkes im Rahmen der Konsolidierung der Beziehungen zwischen den USA, der EU und Israel verbessern will[19]<\/a> - und ein Zentrum, das Druck auf Europa aus\u00fcbt, damit es der israelfreundlichen Politik der Vereinigten Staaten auf der internationalen B\u00fchne folgt[20]<\/a>: Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu den Unterzeichnern einer Erkl\u00e4rung, in der die EU aufgefordert wird, das Korps der Islamischen Revolutionsgarden Irans und die Hisbollah als Terroristen einzustufen[21]<\/a>. Aber das AJC zielt darauf ab, Waffenverk\u00e4ufe an Israel zu erreichen, den V\u00f6lkermord in Pal\u00e4stina zu rechtfertigen und andere Positionen der rechtsextremen Regierung von Bibi Netanjahu zu vertreten[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So f\u00e4hrt Hocker fort: 2022 spricht er sich gegen den europ\u00e4ischen Green Deal aus, der den Einsatz von Pestiziden bis 2030 um 50 Prozent reduzieren und den Anteil des \u00f6kologischen Landbaus von 8 auf 25 Prozent erh\u00f6hen soll - eine Ma\u00dfnahme, die seiner Meinung nach zur Nahrungsmittelabh\u00e4ngigkeit Europas f\u00fchren wird[23]<\/a>. Im Jahr 2021 nimmt er an einer Online-Konferenz teil, die von Bayer (einem Chemie- und Agrargiganten, der um die Kontrolle des Weltmarkts f\u00fcr Glyphosat k\u00e4mpft[24]<\/a>) produziert und beworben wird, und weist erneut darauf hin, dass die Verwendung von Chemikalien des Bayer\/Monsanto-Konzerns notwendig ist, weil sie die Ernteertr\u00e4ge steigern[25]<\/a>. Die Wege von Hocker und Bayer kreuzten sich bereits 2018: Auf der Nutztiermesse EuroTier l\u00e4sst sich Hocker l\u00e4chelnd mit den Mitarbeitern der chemischen Industrie ablichten[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im Jahr 2016 patentierte Monsanto die CRISPR-Cas9-Technologie, mit der die genetische Transformation von Saatgut beschleunigt und vereinfacht werden kann, um Pflanzenorganismen zu schaffen, die gegen feindliche Witterungsbedingungen (Trockenheit, extreme Hitze oder K\u00e4lte) resistent sind und die Ern\u00e4hrungsbed\u00fcrfnisse der Verbraucher, die die Fr\u00fcchte dieser Pflanzen kaufen, erf\u00fcllen k\u00f6nnen; Umweltsch\u00fctzer auf der ganzen Welt \u00e4u\u00dferten sofort Zweifel an den m\u00f6glichen Folgen der massiven Einf\u00fchrung dieser genetisch ver\u00e4nderten Pflanzen[27]<\/a>: Sie k\u00f6nnten f\u00fcr Insekten giftig oder gentechnisch ver\u00e4ndert sein, ihre Anzahl unter das f\u00fcr das Gleichgewicht des \u00f6kologischen Kreislaufs erforderliche Niveau senken oder den Tieren und Menschen schaden, die sie essen[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker spricht sich offen f\u00fcr diese Technologie aus[29]<\/a>. In einem Interview erkl\u00e4rt er, dass die Deklaration von mit CRISPR-Cod9 behandelten Organismen als gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen (GVO) ein Hohn f\u00fcr den Endverbraucher w\u00e4re und ihn dazu auffordern w\u00fcrde, das Produkt und nicht das Etikett zu beurteilen, indem er Sicherheitsfragen herunterspielt[30]<\/a>. Der Kommentar steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Urteil des Europ\u00e4ischen Gerichtshofs von 2018, der (zu Recht) die Regeln f\u00fcr gentechnisch ver\u00e4nderte Organismen mit denen f\u00fcr alle anderen Arten von Lebensmitteln gleichsetzt[31]<\/a>. 2019 bringt Hocker zusammen mit anderen FDP-Abgeordneten einen Antrag mit dem Titel \"Chancen neuer Z\u00fcchtungsmethoden erkennen - F\u00fcr ein technologieoffenes Gentechnikgesetz\" in den Bundestag ein, in dem die Vorz\u00fcge des CRISPR-Cas9-Systems aufgef\u00fchrt werden[32]<\/a>, und spricht sich weiterhin f\u00fcr chemische Pflanzenschutzmittel aus[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch so sehr Hocker genetische Mutanten liebt, so sehr bringen ihn die wahren Protagonisten der Natur in Verlegenheit: Seit 2015 setzt er sich f\u00fcr die Streichung des Wolfs von der Liste der gesch\u00fctzten Arten ein, weil er bef\u00fcrchtet, dass die pl\u00f6tzliche Zunahme der Wolfspopulation die Weidewirtschaft in Mitleidenschaft zieht, und jetzt k\u00e4mpft er (nat\u00fcrlich) an vorderster Front daf\u00fcr, dass die Wildschweinjagd auch innerhalb der bewohnten Stadtgrenzen erlaubt wird - denn die \u00dcbergriffe dieser Tiere auf der Suche nach Nahrung nehmen in Deutschland wie in ganz Europa zu[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seit 2013 ist Hocker durch seine umweltfeindlichen \u00c4u\u00dferungen aufgefallen: Er leugnet die Verantwortung des Menschen f\u00fcr den Klimawandel[35]<\/a>, bef\u00fcrwortet die deutsche Energieautarkie - also die Nutzung von Kohle- und Kernenergie -, wettert gegen Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die sich gegen neue Bohrungen in der Nordsee auf der Suche nach Gasvorkommen aussprechen, und unterst\u00fctzt generell die Entwicklung erneuerbarer Energien[36]<\/a>. Laut Hocker sind Umweltsch\u00fctzer f\u00fcr die Abh\u00e4ngigkeit der deutschen Industrie von der russischen Gasf\u00f6rderung verantwortlich[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fr\u00fchling 2022: Ein Wolfspaar spaziert durch einen Z\u00fcrcher Vorort[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nach seiner Wahl in den Bundestag wurde Hocker in den Vorstand von KENFO, dem Fonds zur Finanzierung der Endlagerung nuklearer Abf\u00e4lle, gew\u00e4hlt[39]<\/a>: Eines seiner Ziele ist es, ein Verbot neuer Windkraftanlagen zu erwirken, da diese die V\u00f6gel ausrotten[40]<\/a>, die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen mindern und f\u00fcr die Energieversorgung \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig sind[41]<\/a>. Und so ist Hocker nat\u00fcrlich nicht nur gegen die (seit Jahren geplante) Abschaltung der deutschen Atomkraftwerke, sondern auch f\u00fcr den Bau neuer Anlagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In seiner Funktion als DFV-Pr\u00e4sident ist Hocker in die Debatte um Fischereiquoten zwischen Deutschland, Gro\u00dfbritannien und der EU eingebunden[42]<\/a>. Der DFV vertritt die Lobby der Fischer, und Hocker ist ihr Sprecher im Bundestag. Seit 1983 hat Europa jedem EU-Land j\u00e4hrlich Fangquoten zugeteilt; dieses System, das verhindern soll, dass die Fischbest\u00e4nde unter die drohende Gef\u00e4hrdungsschwelle f\u00fcr Fischarten fallen, funktioniert nicht mehr, was zu einer ernsthaften Verarmung bestimmter Fisch- und Vogelarten gef\u00fchrt hat[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Um gef\u00e4hrdete Arten zu sch\u00fctzen, wurden die den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern zugeteilten Fangquoten im Laufe der Jahre drastisch reduziert: In Deutschland wurde die Fangquote f\u00fcr Hering zwischen 2017 und 2021 um 94 % und die f\u00fcr Kabeljau um 88 % gesenkt[44]<\/a>. All dies hat dramatische Auswirkungen auf die kleine K\u00fcstenfischerei, die von der Bundesregierung nur 4 % der mageren nationalen Quoten erh\u00e4lt, obwohl sie 76 % der Schiffe ausmacht[45]<\/a>. Der Rest ist f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe industrielle Fischereifahrzeuge bestimmt[46]<\/a>. Gleichzeitig versuchen die skandinavischen L\u00e4nder, Fischereifahrzeuge anderer L\u00e4nder (einschlie\u00dflich Deutschlands) aus ihren Hoheitsgew\u00e4ssern zu verbannen[47]<\/a>, und Hocker geh\u00f6rt zu denjenigen, die f\u00fcr ein neues trilaterales Abkommen zwischen Norwegen, der EU und dem Vereinigten K\u00f6nigreich k\u00e4mpfen, das schlie\u00dflich im Dezember 2022 erreicht wurde[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Es war eine komplexe Verhandlung, zu der Hocker nicht immer einen geradlinigen Beitrag leistete, denn 2020, als der Bundestag \u00fcber einen Entwurf dieses Abkommens abstimmen sollte, stellte er sich vehement dagegen: In der Vorbereitungsphase versenkte Greenpeace Felsbrocken im Meer, um den industriellen Fischtrawlern das Schleppnetzfahren unm\u00f6glich zu machen - eine Tatsache, \u00fcber die sich Hocker als Vertreter der Kleinfischer h\u00e4tte freuen sollen. Im Gegenteil, Hocker stellt sich auf die Seite der multinationalen Fischereikonzerne[49]<\/a> und fordert harte Strafen f\u00fcr die Greenpeace-Aktivisten[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dies sind grundlegende Fragen. Der Streit um die Fangquoten verdeckt das zentrale Problem des \u00dcberlebens der Fische in unseren Meeren: ein Problem, dessen sich die Kleinfischer bewusst sind, aber auch unbeteiligte Zuschauer einer kriminellen Ausbeutung der Meere durch multinationale Unternehmen, die, zumindest scheinbar, v\u00f6llig desinteressiert an der Zukunft der Ozeane sind, und statt die Wiederherstellung des Gleichgewichts der Fischfauna zu planen, um ihre Existenz f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten Jahre zu sichern, k\u00e4mpfen sie um die letzten Kr\u00fcmel. Das Gleiche gilt f\u00fcr die Lobbys f\u00fcr Tabak und genmanipulierte Agrarprodukte: Die Bef\u00fcrworter der Chemie verstecken sich hinter juristischen Argumenten und weichen der zentralen Frage aus, die nach wie vor ungel\u00f6st ist: Soll die industrielle Landwirtschaft anarchisch frei agieren k\u00f6nnen oder soll es genaue Grenzen geben?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyismus hat genau dieses Ziel: Es soll erreicht werden, dass etwas, das der Bev\u00f6lkerung schadet, von den eigenen demokratischen Verwaltungssystemen des Staates akzeptiert wird. Diese Leute versto\u00dfen nicht oft gegen das Gesetz, aber sie sind immer Denkm\u00e4ler des Zynismus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlamentarier und Lobbyist: der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Interessenkonflikt","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlamentarier-und-lobbyist-der-groesste-interessenkonflikt","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6710","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6704,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:45:49","post_content":"\n

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Pour faire carri\u00e8re dans la politique post-id\u00e9ologique, il faut de l'argent et des amis influents avant les id\u00e9es. Ainsi, ceux qui choisissent une carri\u00e8re de fonctionnaire politique et n'aspirent pas \u00e0 de grandes responsabilit\u00e9s gouvernementales ont une multitude d'options et de possibilit\u00e9s devant eux, pour autant qu'ils aient un point de d\u00e9part solide. Un exemple de ce type de carri\u00e8re est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 allemand Gero Hocker - un nom que personne ne conna\u00eet, mais le porte-parole d'un des partis du gouvernement (le FDP, c'est-\u00e0-dire le parti lib\u00e9ral) pour toutes les questions concernant l'agriculture et, avant cela, la p\u00eache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u00e9 en 1975, dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en \u00e9conomie \u00e0 Br\u00eame, titulaire de masters \u00e0 New York, Canton et Ad\u00e9la\u00efde, Hocker est \u00e9lu au Bundestag depuis 2017[1]<\/a> et est pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le porte-parole de l'alimentation pour la fraction FDP[2]<\/a>. M. Hocker peut compter sur une organisation tr\u00e8s solide : il est le pr\u00e9sident de l'association allemande de la p\u00eache (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Avant d'entrer en politique, M. Hocker \u00e9tait conseiller financier[4]<\/a> et consultant en assurances[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En politique, Hocker ne se soucie pas des apparences : en ao\u00fbt 2020, il rencontre des repr\u00e9sentants des lobbies de l'industrie du tabac et des engrais : Jan M\u00fccke, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l'Association de l'industrie du tabac, et Ludwig Willnegger, qui repr\u00e9sente les int\u00e9r\u00eats de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 russe d'engrais Eurochem dans l'Union europ\u00e9enne. Ils ont pay\u00e9 pour avoir une conversation en direct sur Facebook avec Hocker, qui (bien que porte-parole du FDP pour l'agriculture) s'est av\u00e9r\u00e9 en la circonstance un interlocuteur loin d'\u00eatre inconfortable pour les deux lobbyistes[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pay\u00e9e pour l'organisation de la r\u00e9union est Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, appartenant \u00e0 Benjamin Berg et Christof Pein : Berg dirige le bureau \u00e9lectoral de Hocker \u00e0 Achim, dans sa circonscription[7]<\/a>, tandis que Pein est le chef du bureau de Hocker \u00e0 Berlin[8]<\/a>, ainsi qu'un conseiller municipal \u00e0 Achim[9]<\/a>. Cette r\u00e9union intervient \u00e0 un moment o\u00f9 le Bundestag se penche sur l'interdiction de la publicit\u00e9 pour l'industrie du tabac, tandis que l'UE pr\u00e9voit de r\u00e9duire de 20 % l'utilisation des engrais[10]<\/a>. Les r\u00e9actions indign\u00e9es de toutes les forces politiques du pays, m\u00eame de son propre parti, ont pouss\u00e9 Hocker \u00e0 demander la dissolution de Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, qui a rouvert en 2021 - avec le m\u00eame nom et les m\u00eames propri\u00e9taires, mais dans la petite ville de Verden[12]<\/a>. Aujourd'hui encore, Berg et Pein contactent des interlocuteurs potentiels en leur promettant des rencontres sur la plateforme web de Hocker en \u00e9change d'une compensation ad\u00e9quate. La vente aux lobbyistes des entretiens avec un d\u00e9put\u00e9 est \u00e9galement jug\u00e9e d\u00e9concertante par Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, porte-parole de l'association Lobbycontrol bas\u00e9e \u00e0 Berlin[14]<\/a>. Mais si rien ne se passe, Hocker peut continuer \u00e0 faire de la politique dans son propre style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les effets : au Bundestag, Hocker) lance un appel contre des r\u00e8gles plus strictes pour l'industrie du tabac. Quant \u00e0 Eurochem (qui perdrait des milliards d'euros avec la r\u00e9duction europ\u00e9enne de 20 % de l'utilisation des engrais), Hocker \u00e9crit une lettre ouverte \u00e0 la ministre de l'environnement de l'\u00e9poque, Svenja Schulze (SPD), dans laquelle il souligne la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d'utiliser les nouvelles technologies pour s\u00e9curiser les cultures[15]<\/a>. Ce n'est pas la premi\u00e8re fois : d\u00e9j\u00e0 en mai 2020, Hocker s'\u00e9tait rang\u00e9 du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des agriculteurs allemands qui protestaient contre les d\u00e9clarations de Schulze sur l'impact environnemental n\u00e9gatif de l'utilisation massive d'engrais et de pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vid\u00e9o de l'AJC demandant l'inclusion du Hezbollah dans la liste des groupes reconnus comme terroristes par l'Union europ\u00e9enne[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker a les reins solides : il est membre de l'AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, un institut de recherche de l'American Jewish Committee (AJC), qui vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'int\u00e9gration et les conditions de vie du peuple juif dans le cadre de la consolidation des relations entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, l'Union europ\u00e9enne et Isra\u00ebl[19]<\/a> - et constitue un centre de pression pour que l'Europe suive la politique pro-isra\u00e9lienne des \u00c9tats-Unis sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale[20]<\/a>: M. Hocker fait partie des signataires d'une d\u00e9claration appelant l'UE \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer le Corps des gardiens de la r\u00e9volution islamique d'Iran et le Hezbollah comme des terroristes[21]<\/a>. Mais l'AJC vise \u00e0 obtenir des ventes d'armes \u00e0 Isra\u00ebl, \u00e0 justifier le g\u00e9nocide en Palestine, et d'autres positions du gouvernement d'extr\u00eame droite de Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ainsi, Hocker continue: en 2022, il se prononce contre le Green Deal europ\u00e9en, qui vise \u00e0 r\u00e9duire de 50 % l'utilisation des pesticides d'ici 2030, en faisant passer la part de l'agriculture biologique de 8 \u00e0 25 % - selon lui, c'est une mesure qui conduira \u00e0 la d\u00e9pendance alimentaire de l'Europe[23]<\/a>. En 2021, il participe \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence en ligne produite et promue par Bayer (un g\u00e9ant de la chimie et de l'agroalimentaire, engag\u00e9 dans une lutte pour le contr\u00f4le du march\u00e9 mondial du glyphosate[24]<\/a>), dans laquelle il souligne \u00e0 nouveau qu'il est n\u00e9cessaire d'utiliser les produits chimiques du groupe Bayer\/Monsanto, car ils augmentent le rendement des cultures[25]<\/a>. Les chemins de Hocker et de Bayer se sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 crois\u00e9s en 2018 : lors du salon de l'\u00e9levage EuroTier, Hocker est photographi\u00e9, souriant, avec le personnel de l'industrie chimique[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En 2016, Monsanto a brevet\u00e9 la technologie CRISPR-Cas9, qui permet d'acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et de simplifier la transformation g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des semences, cr\u00e9ant ainsi des organismes v\u00e9g\u00e9taux r\u00e9sistants \u00e0 des conditions climatiques hostiles (s\u00e9cheresse, chaleur ou froid extr\u00eame) et capables de r\u00e9pondre aux besoins nutritionnels des consommateurs qui ach\u00e8tent les fruits de ces plantes ; les \u00e9cologistes du monde entier ont imm\u00e9diatement \u00e9mis des doutes sur les cons\u00e9quences possibles de l'introduction massive de ces plantes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9es[27]<\/a>: Ils pourraient \u00eatre toxiques pour les insectes ou g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement transform\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire leur nombre en dessous du niveau n\u00e9cessaire \u00e0 l'\u00e9quilibre du cycle environnemental, ou nuire aux animaux et aux personnes qui les mangent[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker est ouvertement en faveur de cette technologie[29]<\/a>. Dans une interview, il d\u00e9clare que d\u00e9clarer les organismes trait\u00e9s par CRISPR-Cod9 comme g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement modifi\u00e9s (OGM) serait une moquerie pour le consommateur final, l'invitant \u00e0 juger le produit, plut\u00f4t que l'\u00e9tiquette, en minimisant les questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9[30]<\/a>. Le commentaire est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l'arr\u00eat de la Cour de justice europ\u00e9enne de 2018, qui assimile (\u00e0 juste titre) les r\u00e8gles applicables aux organismes g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement mut\u00e9s \u00e0 celles applicables \u00e0 tous les autres types d'aliments[31]<\/a>. En 2019, Hocker pr\u00e9sente, avec d'autres d\u00e9put\u00e9s du FDP, une motion au Bundestag intitul\u00e9e \" Reconna\u00eetre les opportunit\u00e9s des nouvelles m\u00e9thodes de s\u00e9lection - Pour une loi sur le g\u00e9nie g\u00e9n\u00e9tique ouverte \u00e0 la technologie \", dans laquelle les m\u00e9rites du syst\u00e8me CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> sont \u00e9num\u00e9r\u00e9s, et continue de se d\u00e9clarer en faveur des pesticides chimiques[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mais si Hocker aime les mutants g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques, les v\u00e9ritables protagonistes de la nature le mettent ouvertement dans l'embarras : depuis 2015, il milite pour le retrait du loup de la liste des esp\u00e8ces prot\u00e9g\u00e9es, motiv\u00e9 par le danger que l'augmentation soudaine de la population de loups afflige le pastoralisme, et maintenant (naturellement) il est \u00e0 la pointe de la bataille pour autoriser la chasse au sanglier m\u00eame dans les p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres habit\u00e9s des villes - alors que les incursions de ces animaux, \u00e0 la recherche de nourriture, augmentent en Allemagne comme dans toute l'Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2013, Hocker se fait remarquer par ses d\u00e9clarations anti-environnementales : il nie la responsabilit\u00e9 humaine dans le changement climatique[35]<\/a>, pr\u00f4ne l'autarcie \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique allemande - en favorisant l'utilisation du charbon et du nucl\u00e9aire, en s'insurgeant contre les ONG qui s'opposent aux nouveaux forages en mer du Nord \u00e0 la recherche de gisements de gaz, et plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement en soutenant le d\u00e9veloppement des \u00e9nergies renouvelables[36]<\/a>. Selon M. Hocker, les \u00e9cologistes sont responsables de la d\u00e9pendance de l'industrie allemande vis-\u00e0-vis de la production de gaz russe[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Printemps 2022 : un couple de loups se promenant dans la banlieue de Zurich[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Une fois \u00e9lu au Bundestag, Hocker a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9lu au conseil d'administration du KENFO, le Fonds pour le financement de l'\u00e9limination des d\u00e9chets nucl\u00e9aires[39]<\/a>: l'un de ses objectifs est d'introduire une interdiction des nouvelles \u00e9oliennes, coupables d'exterminer les oiseaux[40]<\/a>, d'abaisser la qualit\u00e9 de vie des gens et d'\u00eatre superflues face aux probl\u00e8mes d'approvisionnement \u00e9nerg\u00e9tique[41]<\/a>. Ainsi, bien entendu, M. Hocker est non seulement contre la fermeture (pr\u00e9vue depuis des ann\u00e9es) des centrales nucl\u00e9aires allemandes, mais il est \u00e9galement favorable \u00e0 la construction de nouvelles centrales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En tant que pr\u00e9sident de la DFV, M. Hocker participe au d\u00e9bat sur les quotas de p\u00eache entre l'Allemagne, le Royaume-Uni et l'UE[42]<\/a>. Le DFV repr\u00e9sente le lobby des p\u00eacheurs, et Hocker est son porte-parole au Bundestag. Depuis 1983, l'Europe attribue chaque ann\u00e9e des quotas de capture \u00e0 chaque pays de l'UE ; ce syst\u00e8me, qui vise \u00e0 emp\u00eacher que les stocks de poissons ne tombent en dessous du seuil de dangerosit\u00e9 immanent pour les esp\u00e8ces de poissons, ne fonctionne plus, entra\u00eenant un grave d\u00e9peuplement de certaines esp\u00e8ces de poissons et d'oiseaux[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afin de pr\u00e9server les esp\u00e8ces menac\u00e9es, les quotas de p\u00eache allou\u00e9s aux diff\u00e9rents pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 drastiquement r\u00e9duits au fil des ans : en Allemagne, le quota de hareng pouvant \u00eatre p\u00each\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9duit de 94 % entre 2017 et 2021, et celui de cabillaud de 88%[44]<\/a>. Tout cela a un impact dramatique sur la petite p\u00eache c\u00f4ti\u00e8re, qui ne re\u00e7oit du gouvernement allemand que 4 % des maigres quotas nationaux, alors qu'elle repr\u00e9sente 76 % des navires[45]<\/a>. Le reste est allou\u00e9 aux grands navires de p\u00eache industrielle[46]<\/a>. Dans le m\u00eame temps, les pays scandinaves tentent d'interdire les navires de p\u00eache d'autres pays (dont l'Allemagne) dans leurs eaux territoriales[47]<\/a>, et Hocker fait partie de ceux qui se sont battus pour un nouvel accord trilat\u00e9ral entre la Norv\u00e8ge, l'UE et le Royaume-Uni - finalement conclu en d\u00e9cembre 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il s'agissait d'une n\u00e9gociation complexe, \u00e0 laquelle Hocker n'a pas toujours contribu\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re directe, puisqu'en 2020, alors que le Bundestag s'appr\u00eatait \u00e0 voter sur un projet de cet accord, il s'y est oppos\u00e9 avec v\u00e9h\u00e9mence : lors de la phase pr\u00e9paratoire, Greenpeace a d\u00e9vers\u00e9 des blocs rocheux dans la mer pour rendre impossible le chalutage des chalutiers de la p\u00eache industrielle - ce dont Hocker, en tant que repr\u00e9sentant des p\u00eacheurs artisanaux, aurait d\u00fb se r\u00e9jouir. Au contraire, Hocker se range du c\u00f4t\u00e9 des multinationales de la p\u00eache[49]<\/a> et demande que les militants de Greenpeace soient s\u00e9v\u00e8rement punis[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce sont des questions fondamentales. La lutte pour les quotas de p\u00eache cache la question centrale de la survie des poissons dans nos mers : une question dont les petits p\u00eacheurs sont conscients, mais aussi les spectateurs ineptes d'une exploitation criminelle des mers par des multinationales qui, du moins en apparence, se d\u00e9sint\u00e9ressent compl\u00e8tement de l'avenir des oc\u00e9ans, et au lieu de planifier le r\u00e9\u00e9quilibrage de la faune piscicole, afin d'assurer son existence pour les ann\u00e9es suivantes, elles se battent pour les derni\u00e8res miettes. Il en va de m\u00eame pour les lobbies du tabac et des produits agricoles g\u00e9n\u00e9tiquement manipul\u00e9s : ceux qui plaident en faveur de la chimie se cachent derri\u00e8re des arguments juridiques, \u00e9vitant ainsi la question centrale, qui n'est toujours pas r\u00e9solue : l'agriculture industrielle doit-elle rester anarchiquement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, ou doit-il y avoir des limites pr\u00e9cises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le lobbying a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment cet objectif : r\u00e9ussir \u00e0 faire accepter quelque chose de n\u00e9faste pour la population par les propres syst\u00e8mes de gestion d\u00e9mocratique de l'\u00c9tat. Ces personnes n'enfreignent pas souvent la loi, mais elles sont, toujours, des monuments de cynisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parlementaire et lobbyiste: le plus grand des conflits d'int\u00e9r\u00eats","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parlementaire-et-lobbyiste-le-plus-grand-des-conflits-dinterets","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6704","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":6698,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 14:43:46","post_content":"\n

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\"Gero<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make a career in post-ideological politics, one needs money and influential friends before ideas. Thus, those who choose a career as a political official and do not aspire to great governmental responsibilities have a highway of options and opportunities in front of them, provided they have a firm starting point behind them. An example of this type of career is the German MP Gero Hocker - a name that nobody knows, but the spokesman of one of the governing parties (the FDP, i.e. the liberal party) for all matters concerning agriculture and, before that, fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1975, with a degree in economics from Bremen, masters in New York, Canton and Adelaide, Hocker has been elected to the Bundestag since 2017[1]<\/a> and is precisely the spokesman for food for the FDP fraction[2]<\/a>. Hocker has a very solid organisation behind him: he is the president of the German Fishing Association (DFV Deutscher Fischerei-Verband)[3]<\/a>. Before entering politics, Hocker was a financial advisor[4]<\/a> and insurance consultant[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In politics, Hocker does not pay attention to appearances: in August 2020, he meets with representatives of the tobacco and fertiliser industry lobbies: Jan M\u00fccke, Director General of the Tobacco Industry Association, and Ludwig Willnegger, who represents the interests of the Russian fertiliser company Eurochem in the European Union. They paid to have a live Facebook conversation with Hocker, who (although FDP spokesman for agriculture) in the circumstance proved to be a far from uncomfortable interlocutor for the two lobbyists[6]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company paid for organising the meeting is Feinschliff Consulting GmbH Berlin, owned by Benjamin Berg and Christof Pein: Berg runs Hocker's electoral office in Achim, in his constituency[7]<\/a>, while Pein is the head of Hocker's Berlin office[8]<\/a>, as well as a municipal councillor in Achim[9]<\/a>. The meeting comes at a time when the Bundestag is dealing with advertising bans for the tobacco industry, while the EU plans to reduce fertiliser use by 20%[10]<\/a>. The outraged reactions of all political forces in the country, even of his own party, prompted Hocker to call for the dissolution of Feinschliff Consulting[11]<\/a>, which reopened in 2021 - with the same name and the same owners, but in the small town of Verden[12]<\/a>. Even today, Berg and Pein contact potential interlocutors promising them meetings on Hocker's web platform in return for adequate compensation. The sale to lobbyists of talks with an MP is also considered disconcerting by Timo Lange[13]<\/a>, spokesman for the Berlin-based Lobbycontrol association[14]<\/a>. But nothing happens, Hocker can continue to play politics in his own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects: in the Bundestag, Hocker) appeals against stricter rules for the tobacco industry. As for Eurochem (which would lose billions of Euros with the European 20% cut in fertiliser use), Hocker writes an open letter to the then Minister for the Environment Svenja Schulze (SPD) in which he emphasises the need to use new technologies to secure crops[15]<\/a>. This is not the first time: already in May 2020, Hocker sided with German farmers protesting against Schulze's statements about the negative environmental impact of the massive use of fertilisers and pesticides[16]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AJC video calling for the inclusion of hezbollah in the list of groups recognised as terrorists by the European Union[17]<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gero Hocker has his back covered: he is a member of the AJC Transatlantic Friends of Israel Institute[18]<\/a>, a research institute of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which aims to improve the integration and living conditions of the Jewish people in the context of the consolidation of US-EU-Israel relations[19]<\/a> - and is a centre of pressure on Europe to follow the pro-Israel policy of the United States in the international arena[20]<\/a>: Hocker is among the signatories of a declaration calling on the EU to consider Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah as terrorists[21]<\/a>. But the AJC aims to obtain arms sales to Israel, to justify genocide in Palestine, and other positions of the extreme right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu[22]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Hocker continues: in 2022 he speaks out against the European Green Deal, which aims to cut the use of pesticides by 50 per cent by 2030, increasing the share of organic farming from 8 to 25 per cent - he says this is a measure that will lead to Europe's food dependency[23]<\/a>. In 2021, he participates in an online conference produced and promoted by Bayer (a chemical and agribusiness giant, engaged in a struggle for control of the world market for glyphosate[24]<\/a>), in which he again points out that it is necessary to use Bayer\/Monsanto group chemicals, because they increase crop yields[25]<\/a>. The paths of Hocker and Bayer crossed already in 2018: during the livestock trade fair EuroTier, Hocker is photographed, smiling, together with the staff of the chemical industry[26]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Monsanto patented the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, which can speed up and simplify the genetic transformation of seeds, creating plant organisms that are resistant to hostile weather conditions (drought, extreme heat or cold) and able to meet the nutritional needs of consumers who buy the fruits of those plants; environmentalists around the world immediately raised doubts about the possible consequences of the massive introduction of these genetically transformed plants[27]<\/a>: They could be poisonous to insects or genetically transformed, reduce their numbers below the level necessary for the balance of the environmental cycle, or harm the animals and people who eat them[28]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hocker is openly in favour of this technology[29]<\/a>. In an interview, he states that declaring organisms treated with CRISPR-Cod9 as genetically modified (GMO) would be a mockery for the end consumer, inviting them to judge the product, instead of the label, by minimising safety issues[30]<\/a>. The comment is related to the 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, which (rightly) equates the rules for genetically mutated organisms with those for all other types of food[31]<\/a>. In 2019, Hocker, together with other FDP MPs, presents a motion in the Bundestag entitled 'Recognising the opportunities of new breeding methods - For a genetic engineering law open to technology', in which the merits of the CRISPR-Cas9[32]<\/a> system are listed, and continues to declare himself in favour of chemical pesticides[33]<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if Hocker loves genetic mutants, nature's true protagonists put him in open embarrassment: since 2015 he has been campaigning for the removal of the wolf from the list of protected species, motivated by the danger that the sudden increase in the wolf population will afflict pastoralism, and now (naturally) he is at the forefront of the battle to allow wild boar hunting even within the inhabited perimeters of cities - as the incursions of these animals, in search of food, increase in Germany as in the whole of Europe[34]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2013, Hocker has been conspicuous for his anti-environmentalist statements: he denies human responsibility for climate change[35]<\/a>, advocates German energy autarchy - promoting the use of coal and nuclear energy, railing against NGOs that oppose new drilling in the North Sea in search of gas deposits, and more generally support the development of renewable energies[36]<\/a>. According to Hocker, environmentalists are responsible for German industry's dependence on Russian gas production[37]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2022: a pair of wolves walking through a Zurich suburb[38]<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once elected to the Bundestag, Hocker was elected to the board of KENFO, the Fund for the Financing of Nuclear Waste Disposal[39]<\/a>: one of his goals is to introduce a ban on new wind turbines, which are guilty of exterminating birds[40]<\/a>, lowering people's quality of life, and being superfluous to energy supply problems[41]<\/a>. And so, of course, Hocker is not only against the closure (which has been planned for years) of Germany's nuclear power plants, but is in favour of building new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as DFV president, Hocker is involved in the fishing quota debate between Germany, the UK and the EU[42]<\/a>. The DFV represents the fishermen's lobby, and Hocker is its spokesman in the Bundestag. Since 1983, Europe has allocated catch quotas to each EU country every year; this system, which aims to prevent fish stocks from falling below the immanent danger threshold for fish species, no longer works, causing serious depopulation of certain fish and bird species[43]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to preserve endangered species, fishing quotas allocated to individual countries have been drastically reduced over the years: in Germany, the quota of herring that can be fished was reduced by 94% between 2017 and 2021, and that of cod by 88%[44]<\/a>. All this has a dramatic impact on small-scale coastal fisheries, which receive only 4% of the paltry national quotas from the German government, even though they account for 76% of the vessels[45]<\/a>. The remainder is allocated to large industrial fishing vessels[46]<\/a>. At the same time, Scandinavian countries are trying to ban other countries' fishing vessels (including Germany) from their territorial waters[47]<\/a>, and Hocker is among those who have been fighting for a new trilateral agreement between Norway, the EU and the UK - finally reached in December 2022[48]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a complex negotiation, to which Hocker did not always contribute in a straightforward manner, since, in 2020, when the Bundestag is about to vote on a draft of that agreement, he vehemently opposes it: in the preparatory phase, Greenpeace dumped boulders into the sea to make it impossible for industrial fishing trawlers to trawl - a fact that Hocker, as a representative of small-scale fishermen, should have been pleased about. On the contrary, Hocker sides with the multinational fishing companies[49]<\/a> and demands severe punishment for the Greenpeace activists[50]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are fundamental issues. The fight over fishing quotas hides the central issue of the survival of fish in our seas: an issue of which small-scale fishermen are aware, but also inane spectators of a criminal exploitation of the seas by multinational companies that, at least apparently, are completely disinterested in the future of the oceans, and instead of planning the rebalancing of the fish fauna, so as to guarantee its existence for the following years, they fight for the last crumbs. The same applies to the lobbies for tobacco and genetically manipulated agricultural products: those who argue in favour of chemistry hide behind legal arguments, avoiding the central question, which is still unresolved: should industrial agriculture remain anarchically free to do as it pleases, or should there be precise boundaries?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbying has precisely this objective: to succeed in getting something harmful to the population accepted by the state's own democratic management systems. These people do not often break the law, but they are, always, monuments to cynicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fdpbt.de\/koepfe-fdp-politiker-bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/dafv.de\/referate\/aktuelles\/item\/271-dr-gero-hocker-ist-neuer-praesident-des-deutschen-fischerei-verbandes-dfv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bwe-seminare.de\/referenten-dr-gero-hocker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/hatte-fluechtlingswohnung-angeboten-fehlende-dusche-grund-5960088.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/christoph-pein-29b97a19a\/?originalSubdomain=de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/abgeordnete\/biografien\/H\/hocker_gero-857472<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1215368401895992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/achim-ort44553\/kaeufliche-politik-hocker-unter-druck-90025276.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/firmeneintrag.creditreform.de\/27283\/2012864316\/FEINSCHLIFF_CONSULTING_GMBH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nwzonline.de\/politik\/verden-berlin-lobbyismus-vorwuerfe-hat-gero-hocker-fuer-auftritte-honorar-bezogen_a_50,9,2154691608.html#<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.lobbycontrol.de\/autor\/timo-lange\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sueddeutsche.de\/politik\/lobbyismus-bundestag-fdp-hocker-1.4995070<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agrarheute.com\/politik\/bauerndemos-geht-protesten-landwirte-569005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pImlNWFZw1E<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/transatlantic-friends-israel\/members<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/about-us<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/2004-02-19\/ty-article\/an-american-jewish-lobby-at-the-european-union\/0000017f-dee0-df62-a9ff-def794750000<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/transatlanticinstitute.org\/campaign\/transatlantic-statement-iran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mondialisation.ca\/ajcs-transatlantic-institute-an-eu-pro%C2%AD-israel-lobby-aka-an-international-advocacy-group\/5525911<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.globalagriculture.org\/whats-new\/news\/en.html?tx_sosnews_list%5Bpage%5D=2&cHash=27cc87541ccfc3bfc5d699fcbea080c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/roundup-rechtsstreitigkeiten-fuenf-punkte-plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bayer.com\/de\/de\/btw21-live-talk-wie-die-landwirtschaft-zukunftsfaehig-wird<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/gesundheitbayer\/status\/1063064034038161408<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/22\/monsanto-licenses-crispr\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.broadinstitute.org\/news\/licensing-crispr-agriculture-policy-considerations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/twitter.com\/gerohocker\/status\/1076524001923645440<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunk.de\/gentechnik-urteil-landwirte-werden-von-innovationen-100.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/jcms\/upload\/docs\/application\/pdf\/2018-07\/cp180111en.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a> https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btd\/19\/101\/1910166.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agra.de\/age-kompakt\/ansicht\/news\/hocker-chemischer-pflanzenschutz-ist-weiter-notwendig<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1345230595576438<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BWHPJJg39H4<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.jaegermagazin.de\/jagd-aktuell\/woelfe-in-deutschland\/wolf-und-politik-interview-mit-gero-hocker\/2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kreiszeitung.de\/lokales\/verden\/verden-ort47274\/klima-hocker-satz-2013-wird-nicht-wiederholt-13178483.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hockergero\/posts\/kernenergie-kohle-und-gas-seit-jahrzehnten-hat-sich-deutschland-sukzessive-von-g\/4643961865703278\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/GeroHocker\/status\/1542034551777681410<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.defacto.expert\/2019\/05\/08\/im-schatten-des-wolfes\/?print=print<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.kenfo.de\/der-fonds\/organe-und-gremien<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.myheimat.de\/bad-grund-harz\/c-politik\/gero-hocker-toetung-von-voegeln-durch-windkraftanlagen-wird-ausgeweitet_a2821898<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJOTskh7Pn4\u00f9<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.weserbergland-nachrichten.de\/nienburg\/8658-2016-03-09-14-57-47<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.deutsche-flagge.de\/de\/aktuelles\/nachrichten-archiv\/nachrichten-2021\/fangquoten-fuer-2022-sorgen-fuer-entsetzen-bei-ostseefischern<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bund.net\/meere\/fischerei\/fischereipolitik\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.abendblatt.de\/region\/mecklenburg-vorpommern\/article232798435\/Deutsche-Fischer-fuerchten-Konfrontation-mit-Norwegen.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.fishfarmermagazine.com\/news\/norway-reaches-fishing-deal-with-uk-and-eu\/#:~:text=The%20cod%20quota%20was%20set,record%20low%20level%20in%202022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> Greenpeace, the fishermen and the heavy stones<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> Crimes as a strategy<\/p>\n","post_title":"Parliamentarian and lobbyist: the greatest of conflicts of interest","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"parliamentarian-and-lobbyist-the-greatest-of-conflicts-of-interest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=6698","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":21},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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